Immigration
This is the name for the area below a ship's deck where many immigrants would travel to America in
What is steerage?
These are powerful organizations that sometimes used corruption to solve city and county problems
What are political machines?
Children provided ____ labor and ____ wages
What is cheap, and low?
These are the two of the main things women wanted to fight for during the late 1800s and early 1900s
What is, suffrage and temperance?
This act prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and more
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
These are the 3 countries where Old Immigrants were typically from
What is Germany, Great Britain, and Ireland?
What is a muckraker?
This was the first state to pass the first minimum wage laws in the US
What is Massachusetts?
This constitutional amendment banned the production, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the US
What is the 18th amendment?
These are the 3 "c"s under Teddy Roosevelt's presidency
What is
Control corporations
Consumer protection
Conservation of natural resources
These are the 3 countries where New Immigrants were primarily from
What is Czechia, Grece, and Italy?
This novel, written by Upton Sinclair, exposed the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry in the United States
What is The Jungle?
These laws were designed to grant a portion of lost wages of workers injured on the job
What are Workers' Compensation Laws?
This constitutional amendment gave American women the right to vote
When Roosevelt ran for reelection in 1912, he ran under this party, also nicknamed this
What is Progressive or Bull Moose party?
This law banned new immigrants to the US from this particular country for 10 years, with the name of the country being in the name of the law
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This constitutional amendment allowed Americans to vote directly for US senators
What is the 17th amendment?
The 1916 federal child labor laws did this
What is, banned products made by children to be traded interstate?
This is the full name of the organization founded by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
This constitutional amendment allows the national government to impose a tax on citizen's income
What is the 16th amendment?
These organizations aimed to help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death
What are benevolent societies?
This is what recall, initiative, and referendum are
Recall allowed unhappy voters to remove an official from office before the end of their term
The initiative allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition
The referendum permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed
Explain major differences between capitalism and socialism
Capitalism: individual people own most things and make decisions, competition leads to better products and lower prices
Socialism: the government owns or controls major industries, fairness and equality but less competition
This is the main difference between Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois
What is, Washington wanted African Americans to live separate lives and WEB wanted there to be an active fight for equal rights
These are the 2 main focuses of Woodrow Wilson's presidency
What is banking reforms and tariff revision?