This is the event where protesters lobbed a bomb at police leading to shots fired between Chicago police and the protesters.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
100
This was legislation passed three separate times, making it illegal for one specific ethnic group to immigrate to America.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
This was the group of progressive journalists and writers who exposed the problems of the nation.
Who is the muckrakers?
100
This term refers to the laws, mostly associated with the South, that protected discrimination and segregation based on race.
What is Jim Crow?
100
This was the location where the majority of immigrants to the U.S. were processed. It serviced between 5-10,000 people a day.
What is Ellis Island?
200
This is the belief that the wealthy deserve their wealth because they are simply smarter, stronger, and have worked harder than the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This is a political organization that uses its power to control votes and get rich off tax payer money.
What is a political machine?
200
This was the New York City disaster that led to massive legislative efforts to improve worker safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
200
This was the Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation laws as legal as long as the separate facilities were equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
This was the location where (mostly) Chinese immigrants were interrogated in order to either prevent their entry into the U.S. or deport them back to their country of origin.
What is Angel Island?
300
He led the most influential early union, the American Federation of Labor, and fought for better pay, better hours, and better conditions for workers.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
This is the belief that immigrants are harmful to a nation's economy and should be severely limited or prevented from entering.
What is nativism?
300
This was legislation passed in order to prevent monopolies from harming consumers, but initially was used to break up labor unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
This Amendment protected the right to vote regardless of gender.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This city had more people of Irish descent living within its borders than in all of Ireland by 1900.
What is New York City?
400
This was the idea pushed forward by Andrew Carnegie and stated that the rich had a responsibility to use their wealth to help society, leading many industrialists to become major philanthropists.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
400
He created political cartoons that illustrated the corruption of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in New York City, leading to Tweed's arrest.
Who is Thomas Nast?
400
This was the book that attempted to expose poor working conditions but instead led to legislation that regulated food production.
What is "The Jungle?"
400
He argued that African-Americans should fight for economic equality first to show whites their worth to society and then political and social equality would follow.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
This city is known for its steel production because Andrew Carnegie began his steel empire there.
What is Pittsburgh?
500
John D. Rockefeller built his monopoly in oil by purchasing other oil companies, which is a process known as this.
What is horizontal integration?
500
This was the stipulation for entry in the U.S. according to the Immigration Act of 1917 that most upset progressive legislators and individuals.
What is the literacy test?
500
This act ended the practice of giving government jobs to political supporters, which had become incredibly corrupt, known as patronage or the spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
500
He preached for pride in being black and began a movement that attempted to recolonize Africa.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
Immigrants coming to America from the 1880's to the 1920's came from this nation more than any other.