Vocabulary
Something that attracts immigrants to a country.
What is pull factor?
Who are the people that expose corruption in the government?
Who are Muckrakers?
Act that didn't allow Chinese people into America
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Association that offered rooms, recreational activities, and gymnasiums for young men.
What is the YMCA?
Who was the person that wrote "How the Other Half Lives"?
Who is Jacob Riis?
Something that makes immigrants want to move o another place.
What is push factor?
Who was the U.S. president during the Progressive Era?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Policy that promised equal rights for workers.
What is the Square Deal?
Group that offered food and shelter to the poor.
What is the Salvation Army?
Who was the person that wrote "The Jungle"?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Offering jobs to people who help the government.
What is patronage?
Who was the president that reformed federal jobs?
Who is Chester A. Arthur?
Act that required immigrants to be able to read their home country's language.
What is the Immigration Act of 1917?
Group that supported Theodore Roosevelt
What is the Bull Moose Party?
Who made political cartoons while mostly targeting William Tweed?
Who is Thomas Nast?
Protection of natural resources
What is conservation?
Who was the man that cheated New York for more than $100 million?
Who is William Tweed?
Act that required the labeling of food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Group that was created to fill jobs based off of merit.
What is the Civil Service Commission?
Who are the people that exposed corruption?
Who are Muckrakers?