Minorities and Immigrants
True
True or False: The Southern States passed laws to protect the rights and safety of African Americans during Reconstruction.
False (The South did not protect the rights of African Americans)
What were the main innovations of the Industrial Era of the late 1800s?
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?
This person exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry in the book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
What group used litigation in the court system to try and gain equal rights for African Americans?
The NAACP
What Reconstruction Plan actually passed into law?
Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
During a strike, the government tended to support...
The owners and management of Corporations/Monopolies (NOT the strikers!)
Which Amendment introduced an income tax to the United States?
Sixteenth (16th) Amendment
This person took pictures of the poor living conditions in tenements and published a book called “How the Other Half Lives”
Jacob Riis
The terrible, unsafe, and unhealthy housing in cities where most immigrants lived was called..?
Tenements
Which President implemented the "Big Stick Diplomacy" for his international policy?
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the nickname for the group of Journalists who worked to expose poor working conditions and the corruption of "Big Businesses"?
Muckrakers
The laws that Theodore Roosevelt passed to do quality control of food and medicine were called..?
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
This person opened the nation's first birth control clinic.
Margaret Sanger
Implemented programs designed to help immigrants learn English and adopt American Culture was called..?
Americanization
Woodrow Wilson's plan to control corporations and benefit small businesses was called..?
New Freedom
Why would factory and sweatshop workers strike?
Better pay, hours, and working conditions.
What workplace disaster led to the implementation of many new workplace protections?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
This person opened Hull House to house and teach children, as well as keep them out of sweatshops.
Jane Addams
Due to increased immigration and job opportunities, an increase/expansion of cities and their population occurred, called ____________.
Urbanization
Theodore Roosevelt's plan to stop big businesses and the wealthy from abusing small businesses and the poor was called the..?
Square Deal Program
How can a Corporation become a Monopoly?
By buying out/purchasing their competitors and by driving their competition out of business.
What is the name of the political reform that allows voters to reject laws even if they had already been passed by the legislature?
Referendum
This person was an African American activist and one of the main founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
W.E.B Du Bois