Immigration/Living Conditions
Reform
Women's Movement
Progressive Presidents
Excluded from Reform
100
Why did immigrants come to America?

To escape poverty, war and violence

For jobs, freedom and a better life

100

What is a Muckraker?

An individual who investigates and reports about corruption about different areas in society.

100

What is suffrage?

The right to vote in a public election

100

Which president was known as the trustbuster?

Roosevelt

100

This Act makes companies responsible for posting ingredients and nutrition

Pure Food and Drug Act

200

What was entering the US like for immigrants at Ellis Island and Angel Island?

Waited in boarding houses and received interviews and examinations

They had to go through a series of health tests and evaluations and could possibly be sent back to their homeland if they did not meet proper guidelines.. 

Two-week journey

200
Who wrote the Jungle
Upton Sinclair
200

Who were the two leaders at the beginning of the Women's Right Movement?

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

200

President Taft was a larger supporter of the 16th amendment. What did that amendment state?

A national income tax with the idea that those who made more would pay a higher rate than those who made less

200

Who are the men who asked for votes in exchange for favors like housing and jobs?

Mob bosses or party bosses

300

What is a tenement?

A type of residence that is often run-down and crowded

300

Jacob Riis wrote_?

How the Other Half Lives
300

What issues were women fighting for during the Progressive Era?

Voting rights, End of Child Labor, Stopping the selling and production of alcohol, improving working conditions and forming labor unions for women

300

This set of goals made by Roosevelt for the conservation of natural resources was called what?

The 3 C's

300

Why did Americans want to restrict the number of Asian immigrants in the US? 

  • Americans claimed that Asian immigrants worked for low wages and took away jobs

400

What were the conditions like in tenements?

  • Immigrants lived in these tenements and had to share it with other families.

  • Many landlords lacked interest in maintenance or improvements

  • Apartments contained just three rooms; a windowless bedroom, a kitchen and a front room with windows

  • Lived in cramped tenement housing that regularly lacked basic amenities such as running water, ventilation, and toilets.
400

This amendment stated that the people would be able to directly elect the senators of their state.

17th Amendment

400

Which amendment in 1920, allowed women the right to vote in the United States?

19th Amendment

400

What does NAACP stand for?

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

400

How were African-American treated during the progressive era?

Were denied basic rights, treated as second class citizens, faced violence and lynching from the KKK, faced segregation because of Plessy v. Ferguson 

500

Which muckraker took photographs and documented what life was like for poor citizens living in tenements?

Jacob Riis

500

Ida Tarbell exposed the corruption of ____

Standard Oil Company

500

What were the beliefs of anti-suffragists in the United States?  

  • Women were high-strung, irrational, and emotional

  • Women were not smart or educated enough

  • Women should stay at home

  • Women were too physically frail; they would get tired just walking to the polling station

  • Women would become masculine if they voted

500

Booker T. Washington started what learning facility?

Tuskegee Institute
500

How were Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois similar and different from each other?

Similar: Wanted to see African-Americans successful and gain an education 

Different: 

Washington- African American achieve economic goals rather than political ones. Could achieve equality by demonstrating economic value.

DuBois-Saw no advantage on giving up on civil rights and wanted to protect the right to vote. African Americans needed to educate themselves