Politics
Economics
People
Immigration
Vocab
100

Monopolized the oil industry

John D. Rockefeller

100

Monopoly

One business controlling multiple

100

Founded settlement houses for immigrants

Jane Addams

100

The two main cites for welcoming immigrants

Ellis and Angel Island

100

Cite that largely impacted the political stance of New York

Tammany Hall

200

Monopolized and manipulated many industries, stealing around $50 million

Boss Tweed

200

Railroad built across the US

Transcontinental railroad

200

Exposed the harsh living conditions of tenements

Jacob Riis

200

Most immigrants come from this area

Southern and Eastern Europe

200

Upton Sinclair wrote

The Jungle

300

Monopolized the steel industry

Andrew Carnegie

300

The act that the government should interfere with monopolies

Laissez-faire

300

Revealed the monopolies of Rockefeller

Ida Tarbell

300

Protecting the rights of US born citizens

Natists

300

Mucraker

Someone who brought the darkness of poor living to attention

400

Someone who controlled votes with money

Political Machines

400

Nasty homes that are built side by side with horrible living conditions

Tenements

400

Revealed the poor living conditions of asylums

Nellie Bly

400

Many immigrants lived here

Tenement houses
400

Urbanization

Urbanizing an area

500

Created political cartoons that eventually took down Boss Tweed

Thomas Nast

500

Burned down with workers still in it, resulting in people jumping out windows

Triangle ShirtWaist Factory 

500
Political cartoonist who took down Boss Tweed

Thomas Nast

500

Set to prevent Chinese immigrants

Chinese Exclusion Act

500

Meat Inspection Act

Required all packaged meat to be checked and cleaned before shipping