Immigration, Urbanization And Progressive Era Test Review

Question 1

Immigrant

Answer 1

• Came primarily for economic reasons

* 25 million

Question 2

Refugee

Answer 2

•Came to escape persecution or war

Question 3

Ellis Island

Answer 3

• Main entry port for immigrants

* Located in NYC

Question 4

Rail Road

Answer 4

• Transportation system for industrial revolution

* Created National markets

Question 5

Natural resources

Answer 5

• Coal for fuel
• Iron for steel
• Oil for kerosene

Question 6

Nativism

Answer 6

•Attitude that favored Native born over immigrants

Question 7

Muckrakers

Answer 7

•Journalists who wrote about the problems created by industrialization and urbanization

Question 8

Socialism

Answer 8

•An economic system based on government ownership of factories and businesses

Question 9

Capitalism

Answer 9

•An economic system based on private ownership of factories and businesses

Question 10

Unions

Answer 10

•Workers organize to get what they want

Question 11

Strike

Answer 11

•When workers with hold their labor to get what they want

Question 12

Industrialization

Answer 12

•Economy shifts from farms to factories

Question 13

Urbanization

Answer 13

•The growth of the cities

Question 14

Trust(monopoly)

Answer 14

• Business that controls a majority of an industry

* 50% or more

Question 15

19th Amendment

Answer 15

•Gave woman the right to vote in all elections

Question 16

John Muir

Answer 16

•A conservationist who saved Yosemite

Question 17

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 17

•Indulistillist that controlled 90% of the oil industry

Question 18

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 18

•Induilstrilist that controlled 50% of the steel industry

Question 19

Upton Sinclair

Answer 19

•Muckraker who wrote “The Jungle”

Question 20

Hull Houses

Answer 20

•A place to help immigrants founded by Jane Addams

Question 21

Jacob Riis

Answer 21

•Muckraker who wrote “How The Other Half Lives”

Question 22

Political Machines

Answer 22

•Corrupt politicians and businessmen who ran the city

Question 23

Sherman Anti-trust Act

Answer 23

•Law designed to break up trusts

Question 24

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 24

• First Anti-immigration law

* Targeted Chinese in 1882

Question 25

Food & Drug Administration

Answer 25

•Created to clean up the good & drug industries

Question 26

Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 26

* First progressive president * Signed the Meat Inspection Act * Created the Food & Drug Administration * Trust buster * Conservationist * Sided with organized labor

Question 27

Prohibition

Answer 27

•18th Amendment outlawed alcohol