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100

This invention made it possible for goods to travel by train faster across the country.

What is The Transcontinental Railroad?

100
The cramped, noisy quarters on the lower deck of a ship in which many immigrants traveled.
What is steerage
100

These groups of people used strikes to protest change. 

What are Labor Unions?

100
This act barred Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. for 10 years, and was renewed in 1892.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
100

This happens when people refuse to work. 

What is a strike?

200
One company controls an entire market or industry.
What is a monopoly
200
An extreme dislike for immigrants by native-born people and a desire to limit immigration.
What is Nativism
200

These investigative journalists wanted to expose big businesses and their appalling work conditions.

What are Muckrakers?

200

This act was put in place to decrease the amount of immigrants coming into the country in 1882. 

What is the Immigration Act of 1882?

200
A time period in U.S. history in which great wealth contrasted with horrible poverty, especially in cities.
What is the Gilded Age
300

Because Industrialization created many negative effects that impacted workers, these were used to improve conditions. 

What are "reforms."

300
Most immigrants settled in these types of places.
What are industrial cities
300
This group believed that the government should regulate big businesses and had an obligation to protect and help all members of society.
Who are Progressives
300
This gave women the right to vote, nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment
300

This was the cause of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. (You must have 2 of these)

What is A mixture of a lit cigarrette in garbage can, locked doors on the inside, and broken elevators?

400

This was a direct result of immigration and people moving into the cities: it was a negative effect against children.

What is Child Labor.

400
The two major immigration processing centers in the U.S.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island
400

The amendment outlawed alcohol in the United States.

What is the 18th Amendment?

400

This movement led to the outlaw of alcohol and the 18th Amendment. 

What is the Temperance Movement?

400

These buildings provided housing for many immigrant families, though the living conditions were poor and dirty. 

What are Tenaments?

500

This made boats and trains quicker for transportation. 

What is the Steam Engine?

500
Immigrants had to pass this test in order to enter the U.S.
What is a literacy test
500
This man threatened to seize coal mines with U.S. troops to end the coal strike of 1902.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
500

What Amendment got rid of the ban on alcohol and made it legal again?

What is the 18th Amendment.

500

In big cities, these type of neighborhoods were created that had specific cultures living together.

What are ethnic neighborhoods/ communitites?