African American
Inventor
Woman
Hair Products
Who is "Madam C.J. Walker?"
Union
Invited skilled and unskilled workers
This included women and African Americans
What is the "Knights of Labor?"
This law placed a ban on the immigration of Chinese skilled and unskilled laborers to the United States for a period of ten years.
What is the "Chinese Exclusion Act?"
This person's investigative journalism revealed how John Rockefeller's success was largely based on ruthless business practices.
The name of this Muckraker.
Their book was called "The History of the Standard Oil Company."
Who is Ida. Tarbell
Sensationalists reports in several popular U.S. newspapers. This was during the time of the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Press or Yellow Journalism.
These connected raw materials to factories.
These connected factories to consumers across the nation.
What are "railroads?"
Long Hours
Boring Tasks
Low Wages
Dangerous Conditions
What are "workers' problems?
People moving.
Going from farms (rural areas) to large towns and cities.
What is "Urbanization?"
These provided services to immigrants and the urban poor, such as English Classes, childcare, nursing of the sick, and help in obtaining naturalization.
Settlement Houses.
The name of President Roosevelt's policy that asserted that America would act as a policeman in Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary or "Big Stick".
Workers responses to problems.
They organized into these groups.
These groups negotiate higher wages and better working conditions.
What are "Labor Unions?"
To obtain higher wages and better working conditions.
To place pressure on government.
Organization to help the workers.
What are the "Goals of Unions?"
Hostility towards immigrants.
They favored native born people over foreign born people.
Nativism or Nativists.
They exposed corruption through the newspapers, magazines and books like "The Shame of the Cities."
What are "muckrakers?"
The people with these views thought imperialism was immoral and went against the most basic values of American Democracy.
Anti-Imperialist.
A company agreement to only hire "Union members."
What is a "Closed Shop?"
Union
Carpenters, Cigar makers, and shoe makers.
They only took skilled workers.
They did not admit women.
What is the "American Federation of Labor?"
Who had these problems?
1 Rapid Growth
2. Lacked hospitals, police and public schools
3. Lacked garbage services due to rapid growth
What are "Cities?"
Reformers who believed in using government rules to remedy abuses.
Progressives.
Congress passed this , ensuring that the United States would not annex Cuba after the War.
Teller Amendment
What did the Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike and Pullman Strike all have in common?
What is "Violence?"
These 3 incidents demonstrated the continuing sympathies of the government and the public in favor of employers and against labor unions.
1) Haymarket Riot
2) Homestead Strike
3) Pullman Strike
Immigration was cut of by this. It was between the Japan and the United States.
Gentlemen's Agreement.
He wrote a novel about the harmful practices in the meatpacking industry, such as putting dead rats and rat poison in sausage meat. The book was titled "The Jungle."
Upton Sinclair
Jungles
Mosquitoes - Yellow Fever and Malaria
Draining Swamps and spraying insecticides.
Steep rocky soil.
Obstacles to building the Panama Canal.