Political
What were the drawings in newspapers called that exposed the injustices and pushed other political views?
Political Cartoons
When there is an increased number of people to an area, more buildings are built, and there can come with an increased amount of crime what is to called?
Urbanization
Who invented the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
The Island that most Europeans were sent through when immigrating to America.
Ellis Island
The man who wrote the Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
What was the act was passed stopping the formation and creating of trust and monopolies?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What were the push/pull factors for Immigrants?
Religious freedom, economic hardship, job/land opportunities, and industrial advancements.
What was the Transcontinental railroad?
In was a railroad that stretched from the eastern to western ends of the united states and connected the Atlantic and Pacific.
The Man who showed what life was like for people live in this tenements and flash power in order to show poor they were really living.
Jacob Riis
Who wrote the yellow wallpaper?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What is a Political Machine?
A politician who uses their influences for their own gain and has the ability to influence others to keep one party in control.
Who was the man that owned Standard Oil and was forced to split up his Monopoly?
John D. Rockefeller
Who created settlement houses?
Jane Addams
The Island that Immigrants from Asia would come through to get into America.
Angle's Island
Why were political cartoons so popular?
They were popular because even if you did speak or read any English you could still be able see the cartoon and understand what it was trying to convey. It was very helpful to the new Immigrants and the poor who could not read.
Who was Boss Tweed?
He was a politician who gave housing and help to the immigrants in exchange for voting for him, and the democratic party. He was caught using the money that was for the new court house for his own expenses and went to jail.
What is a Monopoly?
It is when there is only one business that control all distribution of an industry and no longer any competition to compete with.
What was the Bessemer Process?
It was a process that made steel lighter, more accessible, and faster to produce.
A place were immigrants could go it lesson and help, that was a community center for all the immigrants in the community.
Settlement Houses
This novel talk about women and how the rights to economic freedom and should be looked down upon if they choose to stay apart of the work force.
The Yellow Wallpaper
What was the act passed that banned Chinese works/people from entering the country for ten years and was extended multiple times after it was passed?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Who was the man that came up with a way to make steel lighter and faster to make?
Henry Bessemer
The housing that factory owners placed their works in that could hold a lot of people at one time and usually had poor living conditions.
Tenements
The man who exposed boss Tweed and Tammany hall using political cartoons.
Thomas Nast
What was the Jungle about?
About how bad the conditions for the worker were and how unsanitary it really was in these factories for both the meat and workers.