Random Tidbits
This act, passed by Theodore Roosevelt, required that companies protect consumers by ensuring quality meat
Meat Inspection Act
This person wrote "The Jungle", exposing malpractices of the meatpacking industries of the time
Upton Sinclair
Journalists who exposed abuses in society, the government, and major corporations
Muckrakers
This act promoted the agricultural development of the Great Plains by providing free land to settlers
Homestead Act
This location was the arrival point for many immigrants from Europe
Ellis Island
This person was the founder of the NAACP and advocated for immediate civil rights
W.E.B. DuBois
This person was the boss of the political machine in New York known as Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
The practice of eliminating competition within a given industry
Monopoly/Trust
This act required food and medicine companies to label the ingredients of their products.
Pure Food & Drug Act
This act banned Chinese immigrants from arriving to the U.S until the 1940s.
Chinese Exclusion Act
People went to this chilly part of the U.S. to find gold in the late 1800s
Klondike Gold Rush
This person aided in the assimilation of immigrants by creating Hull Houses
Jane Addams
A group of workers fighting for better working conditions and better pay by using collective bargaining and strikes
This act was passed to require prospective applicants to take an exam to prove they qualify for a government position
Pendleton Act
The process of immigrants adopting American traditions & customs in an effort to join society
Assimilation
A third party founded in the late 1800s by farmers and laborers that supported the free coinage of silver
Populist Party
This person is often referred to as a "robber baron" and is responsible for inventing the Bessemer process
Andrew Carnegie
No government regulations on businesses and French for "hands off"
Laissez Faire
This act took land away from native Americans and began the process of assimilating Indian children
Dawes Act
Another name for immigrant neighborhoods (not ghettos)
Ethnic enclaves
Voters can vote on a law
Referendum
This person was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute and advocated for African Americans to acquire racial equality by obtaining vocational training
Booker T. Washington
An economic system defined by individualism and a market controlled by the consumers
Free Enterprise/Capitalism/Free Market
This act targeted the practice of monopolies (two possible answers)
Sherman Antitrust Act/Clayton Antitrust Act
Cultural diffusion