Facts
What is an example of acculturation?
What is speaking a blend of English and another language?
This federally owned island, nicknamed "The Gateway to America", processed approximately 12 million immigrants to the U.S.
Ellis Island
1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
What is Meat Inspection Act?
This amendment gave the rights that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. were entitled equal rights
What is the 14th amendment?
Right to vote
What is Suffrage?
. How did Mark Twain include local color in his writing?
What is by capturing southern speech patterns?
How did the U.S. government respond to anti-Chinese sentiment?
What is by barring many Chinese immigrants from entering the country
Founded in 1909 to work for racial equality
What is NAACP?
This amendment direct election of senators?
What is 17th amendment?
Founded in 1890 and help women win the right to vote
What is National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) ?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants is called what?
What is nativism?
This movement banned alcoholic beverages
What is Temperance Movement?
How did building codes help to improve the safety of urban tenements?
What is they required fire escapes?
This amendment gave congress the power to pass an income tax?
What is 16th amendment?
This person was the first to push for women's right to vote, was arrested, and refused to pay the $100 fine
Who is Susan B. Anthony
What were the goals of the reformers in the Progressive Era ?
What is
to decrease the power of the federal government
to eliminate unethical and unfair business practices
to reduce corruption
to counteract the negative social effects of industrialization
Between 1915-1920 alcohol abuse caused many social problems
What is Prohibition?
Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
What is Antitrust Legislation?
This amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages?
What is 18th amendment?
This person founded the Nationals Women's party, chained herself and went on a hunger strike
Who is Alice Paul?
What role did nativism play in federal policy?
What is concern over cultural differences led to more restrictive immigration laws.
This was the deadliest workplace accident (fire) in NYC
What is Triangle Shirtwaist Company?
the founder of Hull House and settlement house movement, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycare's, and child care classes
who is Jane Addams?
This amendment extended suffrage to women in federal and state elections?
What is the 19th amendment?
Worked state by state to get women the right to vote
What is American Women's Suffrage Association (AWSA)?