Vocabulary
Farming society to a manufacturing society
Industrialization
I invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Selling newspapers with the headline, "Baby born with three heads!" would be an example of...
Yellow Journalism
The Progressive Movement was pushed by people in which social class? (lower, middle, upper...)
Middle
Woman can vote!
19th Amendment
Blending into society, becoming "American"
Assimilation
I worked for the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
East and West coast areas tha processed immigrants
Ellis Island = European Immigrants, Angel Island = Asian Immigrants and
Labor unions are...
Workers organizing to get specific wants: fair wages, security, job protection, benefits, safe work conditions
Prohibition Act...
18th Amendment
Long work hours, little pay, poor work conditions
Sweatshop
Writers who exposed government corruption.
Muckrakers
Reasons people immigrated to the United States.
Wars, opportunity, and religion
16th Amendment...
income tax
Rapid growth of cities.
Urbanization.
Established a national parks system.
President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
A company controlling one industry. Give me an example.
Monopoly (Steel or Oil)
Upton's Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" changed America in what way?
Helped create the Pure Food and Drug Act
Made goods quickly, efficiently and cheaply.
An assembly line
I invented the incandescent lightbulb
Thomas Edison
How did industrialization have an impact on urbanization?
People wanted to live closer to their jobs.
How did Progressive reformers help solve the cities’ problems? Give at least 2 examples.
Progressive reformers worked to establish city parks and beautification projects, safer housing and sanitation, teaching immigrants to adapt to their new country, establishing settlement houses where immigrants were taught social skills.
What is the 21st Amendment?
End of Prohibition