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What reformer provided kindergarten/day care, among other services, to immigrant/working class families
Who is Jane Addams
100
This prevented many Asians from entering the US because Americans were struggling to find jobs on the West coast
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
100
This was established by Plessy v. Ferguson
What is separate but equal
100
This factor is associated with the decision of the US to declare war on Spain
What is yellow journalism
100
This is what occurred in the Philippines during the Flipino-American War
What is the US tried to put down an independence movement and create an overseas empire
200
This author exposed the lax regulations in the food industry in the book The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair
200
Led by Samuel Gompers
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
200
These laws led directly to segregation of public facilities
What is Jim Crow Laws
200
This allowed the time to travel between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans to be shortened
What is the Panama Canal
200
This was the ship that exploded in Havana, Cuba that sparked the Spanish-American war
What is the USS Maine
300
This reformer reported on and exposed Rockefeller's business practices
Who is Ida Tarbell
300
This labor strike was known as an example of industrial unrest-helped fight for better working conditions/pay
What is the Pullman Strike
300
This gave the US "Police Powers" to protect Latin America from European imperialism
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
300
This is when a larger, more superior country exerts power and dominance over a smaller country
What is imperialism?
300
This is where most European immigrants came through the United States
What is Ellis Island
400
This group of people exposed widespread corruption in business and government
What are muckrakers
400
This organization fights for African American equality
What is the NAACP
400
This prevented Europeans from any future settlements in the Western hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine
400
Which presidents shared the idea that a special relationship should exist between the US and Latin America
Who is Monroe and Roosevelt
400
This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
What is The Jungle
500
This reformer helped found the NAACP in 1909
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
500
These voter reforms allowed an increase in participation in government by citizens
What is initiative, referendum, recall
500
This amendment allows the direct election of U.S. senators
What is the 17th amendment
500
This movement was supported by Roosevelt by enthusiastically promoting the conservation of America's wilderness
What is Conservation movement
500
This was the last major conflict with Native Americans regarding the movement westward
What is Wounded Knee