Vocabulary and People to Know
Writer of "The Jungle" which exposed the conditions in meatpacking factories in the US
Upton Sinclair
This Amendment gave Women the Right to Vote
19th Amendment
This movement aimed to address the problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption, seeking to improve society through government action.
What is the Progressive Movement?
this act allowed federal inspection of food and medicine across state lines
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The Factors that cause an immigrant to choose the US over other destinations are called
Pulled Car
Term for an investigative reporter who tells the public about the "ills of society"
Muckraker
This Amendment Made the sale, production and distribution of Alcohol Illegal
18th Amendment
Who were the 3 "Progressive Presidents"?
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson?
Act created as an addition to the Sherman Anti-trust act that gave unions more power by defining illegal business practices
Clayton Anti-trust Act
The belief that native born Americans are superior to immigrants is called
Nativism
This 1890 law was used to break up monopolies and promote competition in business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Legalized a federal income tax
Sixteenth Amendment
Roosevelt's wants this type of deal, where everyone wins/feels equal
a Square Deal
Instead of discrimination, Booker T Washington believed African Americans should focus on this
Education and economic Success
The right for a union to negotiate contracts on everyone's behalf is called
Collective Bargaining
Progressive leader who founded Hull House in Chicago for poor families and immigrants
Jane Addams
This Amendment gave the US Citizens the right to directly elect senators.
17th Amendment
These were formed to organize workers and bargain for more rights and pay.
Workers unions
WEB Du Bois form to fight for Equal rights through the Court System
NAACP-(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Major Union demands include (List 3)
End Child Labor, Shorter Hours, Better conditions, Better Pay, Collective Bargaining Rights, Written Contracts.
Term for one's right to vote
Suffrage
Which Amendment Outlawed the 18th Amendment?
21st Amendment
a type of election whereby an elected official can be voted out of office
What is a recall election?
What was the goal of the Department of Labor and Commerce
enforce regulations on businesses
New Immigrants (1880's - 1924) mainly came from which regions?
Southern and Eastern Europe (Also Asia)