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Author of The Jungle, a social criticism of the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Built in 1892, it was the port of entry for most European immigrants arriving in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Studying American history and civics, learning to speak English, and adopting American customs.
What is Americanization?
Problems that cause people to move away from their location.
What are push factors?
Her home, Hull House, became the first settlement house in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
Completed in 1910, it was designed to enforce the exclusion act by isolating Asian immigrants from friends and relatives on the mainland and preventing them from escape upon arrival.
What is Angel Island in San Francisco?
Set guidelines for hiring Civil Service employees, or nonmilitary government workers.
What is the Pendleton Act?
The practice of favoring the interests of native-born Americans over those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
Opportunities that draw people to move to a new location.
What are pull factors?
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute to encourage Black people to gain respect and status in society by elevating themselves through education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The Central Bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
Founded by Florence Kelley in 1893 to outlaw the practice of child labor.
What is the National Child Labor Committee?
Emphasized moderation or completely banning of the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Businesses that remove mineral resources from the earth.
What are extractive industries?
One of the co-founders of the NAACP, he supported legal recourse in forcing state and federal government to recognize minority rights.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The 19th Amendment was the culmination of the Declaration of Sentiments composed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton at this location.
What is Seneca Falls, New York?
Organization that promoted the women's suffrage movement?
What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
What is the Social Gospel?
Theodore Roosevelt's plan for regulating big business in addition to protecting workers and consumers.
What is the Square Deal Platform?
His New Freedom platform limited the power of trusts based on their denying economic freedom to small businesses and ordinary citizens.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Investigative Journalists like Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, and Upton Sinclair were often known as this for digging up scandals.
What are muckrakers?
Allows the government to impose a graduated income tax.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
Also know as the Volstead Act, this prohibited the manufacture, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
Established a new agency to test and approve drugs before they became available on the market.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?