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These immigrants came from South and Eastern Europe.
What are New Immigrants?
100
This term describes tycoons who mistreated their employees and used ruthless means to get rich.
What are Robber Barons?
100
Muckraking is a term for.
What is exposing/digging up negatives/dirt on the actions of a person or business.
100
This act (Which Teddy Roosevelt is most famous for) created labeling for medicines and regulated food.
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)?
100
What was the purpose of Taft's Dollar Diplomacy?
What is to secure American business security abroad?
200
This is the island that welcomed the New Immigrants from Europe.
What is Ellis Island?
200
Standard Oil is an example of this type of new business.
What is a monopoly?
200
How did Muckraking change the role of journalism in America during the time?
What is revealed scandals and played on people's emotions?
200
Who would have benefited most from Progressive Era reform? A. African Americans B. Factory Workers C. Presidents D. None of the above
What are Factory Workers? (B)
200
The 17th Amendment changed voting regulations for which officeholder?
What are senators?
300
This is the term for preferring Native born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
300
Many workers joined these to work for better wages and fairness in the workplace.
What are labor unions?
300
Jacob Riis exposed what awful conditions in New York City?
What is homelessness/slums/How the Other Half Lives?
300
What was the purpose of the Hull House and who founded it?
What is to better the lives of those in slums, give women education, provide childcare. Jane Addams.
300
These allowed you to stay at home as your ordered goods right to your door for the first time.
What are mail order catalogs?
400
This is where most immigrants found jobs.
What are factories?
400
This man is perhaps the most supportive of labor unions.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
400
Upton Sinclair is most famous for creating this book exposing the horrors of the Meat Packing Industry.
What is The Jungle?
400
Dumbbell Tenements were an improvement of these which did not allow for airflow and sanitation problems.
What are tenement houses?
400
This is the process for making steal. It helped to grow the modern city with the introduction of skyscrapers.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
This act did not allow immigrants from China and did not allow them to get jobs.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
These are the two new techniques that surfaced during the Gilded Age to create monopolies.
What are Horizontal and Vertical Integration?
500
The purpose of muckraking was similar to the goals of Progressives. What are progressives?
What is people who try to change society/move forward?
500
Ida Tarbell helped to change business practices by writing the "History of the Standard Oil Company" which revealed what?
What is the abuses of power and businesses practices by tycoon John D. Rockefeller?
500
Why did Mark Twain coin the late 1800s/early 1900s the Gilded Age?
What is vast wealth and grandness hiding a poor and corrupt society?