Industrialization Station
This was the first machine that powered early factories.
What is the steam engine?
This was the main immigration processing center in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
This was the first major national labor organization
What are the Knights of Labor?
This was the President most associated with Progressive reforms
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This was the average people per tenement in New York City.
What is 4-5 people per room?
Typical hours worked in factories per week in 1890
What is 60 hours per week?
This was a major immigrant group during the Great Potato Famine
Who are the Irish immigrants?
This was the minimum child labor age after initial reforms
What is 14 years old?
This was a journalist who exposed meat industry conditions
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Primary urban sanitation system problem
What are inadequate sewage systems?
He was the inventor of the assembly line technique.
Who was Henry Ford?
This was the law that banned Chinese immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
He was the founder of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
He was an African American leader who co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This was the typical monthly tenement apartment rent
What is $15-20 per month?
This was the primary industrial fuel source in the late 1800s.
What is coal?
This was a primary "push" factors causing European immigration
What are economic challenges?
This was an iinfamous labor protest where workers were killed
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This was a key women's rights amendment
What is the 19th Amendment?
Percentage of immigrants in major cities by 1910
What is 75% of immigrants?
This was the percentage of workforce in manufacturing by 1900.
What is 25% of the workforce?
This was the total immigrants between 1880-1920
What is 20 million immigrants?
This was the average weekly industrial worker wage in 1900
What is $10 per week?
This was the number of states allowing women's voting before national amendment
What are 15 states?
This was the New York City population in 1900
What is 3.4 million people?