Immigration
This was the main hub of immigration processing for the East Coast during the early 20th century
What is Ellis Island?
This is the name for journalists who exposed corruption and living conditions of the poor to the general public
Who are muckrakers?
This is the name for Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy campaign, which included trustbusting.
What is the Square Deal?
This Southern law banned people from voting if one of their recent relatives was a slave.
What was the grandfather clause?
This Republican president fought with Theodore Roosevelt and split the Republican party in half during the 1912 election
Who was William Howard Taft?
These crowded and unsanitary buildings housed immigrants in Manhattan's Lower East Side
What are tenement buildings?
This is the official term for when politicians use their job for illegal personal gain.
What is grafting?
This law passed in the early 1900's required pharmacies to truthfully label what was in their products
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This civil rights organization founded in 1909 advocates for the equality of all races in America.
What is the NAACP?
This act of Congress required certain government job applicants to pass an exam before getting the job
What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This movement advocated in favor of immigration from certain countries and lobbied against immigration from other countries
What is nativism?
This group controlled who got government jobs and government favors in the big cities of the late 19th century.
What were political machines?
This woman advocated for the abolition of slavery and was also the main leader of the women's suffrage movement in the 19th century.
Who was Susan B Anthony?
This Southern law required voters to pay a fee in order to vote in the early 20th century
What was the poll tax?
This federal banking system created by Woodrow Wilson allowed banks to print money during a financial crisis
What is the Federal Reserve?
This lesser-known location in American immigration history mainly processed Asian immigrants coming to the West Coast
What is Angel Island?
This book exposed the unsanitary working conditions at meat packing plants in the early 20th century
What is The Jungle?
This political party backed Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 bid for the presidency
What is the Bull Moose/Progressive Party?
This African-American educator founded Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school for trades like blacksmithing and farming
Who is Booker T Washington?
This man invented the Kodak camera, allowing photojournalists and rookie photographers to easily and affordably take pictures of the moving world
Who was George Eastman?
This act of Congress banned immigrants of a certain country from immigrating to the US in 1882 unless they met specific requirements
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This US president was shot by someone who had been denied a government job just a few months after taking office
Who was James A Garfield?
This event set the precedent that the president should intervene in labor disputes if the public good is threatened.
What was the Pennsylvania Coal Strike?
This Supreme Court case decided train cars could be segregated by race as long as they were "separate but equal"
What is Plessy V Ferguson?
This amendment to the Constitution granted all women in America the right to vote in federal elections
What is the 19th Amendment?