🟪 CATEGORY 1: LESSON 1 – IMMIGRATION
A reason people leave their country
What is a push factor?
Crowded apartment buildings
What are tenements?
Most popular sport
What is baseball?
Corrupt city leaders
What are political bosses/machines?
President known as trustbuster
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
A reason people come to a new country
What is a pull factor?
Condition of tenements
What is overcrowded/dirty?
Watching sports for fun is called
What are spectator sports?
People who exposed problems
Who are muckrakers?
Roosevelt’s reform plan
What is the Square Deal?
Cheap, crowded part of the ship immigrants traveled in
What is steerage?
Railroads helped cities grow by moving these
What are people and goods?
Short movies shown for 5 cents
What are nickelodeons?
Law that regulated railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Amendment allowing income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
Immigration station on the East Coast
What is Ellis Island?
Where middle-class families moved
What are suburbs?
Exaggerated news stories
What is yellow journalism?
Law that broke up monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Law that regulated banks
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Immigration station on the West Coast
What is Angel Island?
What caused many diseases in cities
What is dirty water/garbage?
Type of writing about real life
What is realism?
Law that made food safer
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Court case allowing segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Law that limited Chinese immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Tall buildings made possible by elevators
What are skyscrapers?
Writer known for realism
Who is Mark Twain?
Ban on alcohol
What is Prohibition?
Idea government should not interfere
What is laissez-faire?
Process of becoming part of American culture
What is assimilation?
Movement to improve city beauty
What is the City Beautiful Movement?
City where jazz began
What is New Orleans?
Group fighting for women’s working conditions
What is the Women’s Trade Union League?
Movement to reduce alcohol use
What is the Temperance Movement?
Neighborhoods where immigrants lived with similar cultures
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
Time period showing wealth and poverty
What is the Gilded Age?
Type of shows with singing, dancing, comedy
What is vaudeville?
Reformers who wanted change
Who are Progressives?
President who supported banking reform
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Biggest challenge immigrants faced after arriving
What is finding work?
Settlement house started by Jane Addams
What is Hull House?
New idea of learning by doing
What is progressive education?
Example of corruption in cities
What are kickbacks/bribes?
President who supported worker safety
Who is William Howard Taft?
Why immigrants came to the U.S. (2 reasons)
What are freedom and better economic opportunities?
Why farmers moved to cities
What is fewer farm jobs due to machines?
Why more people were reading
What is better education and libraries?
What Progressives believed government should do
What is protect people and regulate business?
Goal of Progressives overall
What is to improve society and make it fair?