The Progressive Era

Flashcards about The Progressive Era

Nativists

Believed some immigrants did not fit into American culture because their customs were too different.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Act preventing Chinese Laborers from entering the country.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Helped lead the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Nativist

Would most likely support passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The “Gilded Age”

A time when a thin layer of wealth seemed to cover up a great deal of corruption.

The pull factor of inexpensive land

Would most likely encourage an immigrant who wanted to raise and sell cattle in the United States.

Midwest and East regions

Many urban industrial jobs were available in these regions.

President Taft

Supported new safety rules for workers in mines.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Urged African Americans to actively fight discrimination and co-founded the NAACP.

Civil Service Commission

Purpose is to fill federal jobs on the basis of merit rather than patronage.

Muckrakers

Exposed the corrupt business and political practices.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast

Portrayed Boss William Tweed as a vulture feeding of the city of New York because Tweed had cheated the city out of huge amounts of money.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Most closely associated with the event shown in the photograph would be the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Increased migration to urban areas

Most directly led to the example of architecture shown in the photo is increased migration to urban areas.

Roosevelt’s concern about Japan’s growing naval power

Statement that best explains why President Roosevelt tried to soothe Japanese feelings through measures such as his condemnation of segregation in San Francisco; Roosevelt was concerned about Japan’s growing naval power.

Society of American Indians

Society encouraged American Indians to adopt mainstream American culture.

The need for an educated workforce

Underlying cause that led states to pass laws in the late 1800s requiring children to attend school: the need for an educated workforce.

Florence Kelley

Organizing a boycott of goods produced by child laborers.

Push factors

Conditions that drive people from their homes.

Pull factors

Conditions that attract immigrants to a new area.

Poor neighborhoods

Small Space called tenements and spoiled food, no bathrooms, no dumpsters.

Middle Class neighborhoods

Had their own homes, outside the city sometimes, far apart, trees, money, lived in a row.

Wealthy neighborhoods

Big mansions, Iron fences or brick walls. Owned famous works of art. Lavish lifestyle.

Judges' reasoning in favor of trusts after the Sherman Antitrust Act

They thought the law interfered with business to control their own property and they thought the law was anti-capitalists.