Progressive Era

Andrew Carnegie

Steel industry

John D. Rockefeller

Oil Industry

J.P. Morgan

Banking Industry

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroads and shipping

Push Factors of Immigration

economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty

Pull Factors of Immigration

Economic Opportunity ($)

Jobs/ workers were needed

Land

Peace and stability

Freedom to make a better life

What hardships did immigrants face coming into the U.S.?

Discrimination, finding work, finding housing

Maine

Vermont

Massachusetts

New York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Connecticut

Rhode Island

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

19th Amendment (1920)

Gave women the right to vote

Child Labor

using children to work in factories and businesses

Prohibition

A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

reform

to change for the better

unions

organizations of workers who bargain with employers as a group

wages

The money paid to employees for work

Muckrakers

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public

21st Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition