People
Strikes and Acts
Push or Pull
Other Words
100

Who created the Standard Oil Company?

John D. Rockefeller 

100

Chinese Exclusion Act

A law that restricted immigration into the United States.   

100

Their home land didn't let them have relgoius freedom. Push or Pull? 

Push.

100

Settlement Houses. 

Provided services to the urban poor and European immigrants, this includes education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources. 

200

Thomas Edison did what? 

Invented the light bulb. 

200

A landmark U.S. law that banned businesses from forming a monopoly. 

Sherman Antitrust Act

200

There is war going on in their country, push or pull?

Push. 

200

Policy of minumum of goevrment interfrenece in econimic affairs of induviduals and society. 

Laissez-faire economics.

300

He was an American newspaper reporter and photographer. 

Jacob Riis

300

Homestead Strike

Dispute between Carnegie Steel Company and the workers that worked there. 

300

America is seen as the best country in the world. Pull or Push. 

Pull.

300

What is a Monopoly?

When large companies control and take over prices of the goods and services provided from the company. 

400

Muckraker?

Exposed the wrongdoing of Monpilistes and others who were hurting people's social lives. 

400

Meat Inspection Act 

Ensured that the food was being prosessed and manufactured in a clean and safe environment so the food isn't infected and dirty. 

400

America has more job oppritunities. Push or Pull?  

Pull.

400

The port in NYC were immagrants got inspected to come into the United States. 

Ellis Island. 

500

Successful industrialists who were often ruthless with their business practices. 

Robber Baron 

500

Prohibites activites that restrict compitetion in the marketplace. 

Sherman Antitrust Act

500

Their home land isn't well run poltically. Pull or Push?

Push. 

500

Bessemer Process. 

The first process disocvered for mass production of steel.