Gilded Age Immigration
All immigrants coming from Asian nations had to stop at this island off the coast of San Francisco before coming in.
What was Angel island?
It meant "hands off" and that govt would stay out of businesses.
What was laissez-faire?
This amendment banned the sale, transportation, and manufacture of alcohol in the US.
What is the 18th Amendment?
He wrote The Jungle...wanted to expose light on poor working conditions and instead shined light on unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry (food industry as a whole)
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment granted women suffrage.
a set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The incorrect belief with ties to evolutionary theory that was used to justify racism and extreme wealth inequality.
A system of political corruption that manipulated voters in their area to keep power. Most famous is Tammany Hall in NYC.
What is a Political Machine?
Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and believed in fighting for immediate equality for African Americans.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
This movement was primarily led by women, and focused on ending the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Here, an a immigrant could learn English, get help finding a place to live, understand the American culture, and other basic things that a new immigrant would need.
What was a Settlement houses?
The first law of this era that was passed with the goal to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
A short lived American political party that began in the 1850s as a reaction against immigrants, and especially Irish immigrants.
Who are the Know-Nothings?
Advocated for the advancement of African Americans through economic growth and good jobs.
This muckraker focused on exposing violence against African Americans, and she was also a prominent suffragette who faced discrimination within the women's rights movement.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Immigrants from this country were usually Catholic and impoverished- they faced a great deal of discrimination.
What is Ireland?
The tycoon who used monopolistic business practices to conquer the steel industry; known for donating money to social causes.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Considered the most progressive President of this era.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This woman wrote a book exposing the corrupt business practices of John D. Rockefeller.
These woman co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and helped to ratify the 13th Amendment, although they split from Frederick Douglass when they argued for women to have the right to vote before African Americans.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
Immigrants from this country typically had some money, and they purchased land in the Midwest to become farmers.
What is Germany?
Founded in 1886 and led by Samuel Gompers, this labor union has been the most effective and long lived union in American history.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
"Separate but Equal" is referring to what case
What is Plessy V Ferguson?
The Irish immigrant who led the Children's Crusade against child labor- called the most dangerous woman in America by the FBI.
Who is Mother Jones?
This was the first state to permanently grant women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?