Immigration And Progressive Era 🌺🍍⚡️😢😢🌸🌸⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🥵🥵👑👑🍍🍍⚡️⚡️⚡️🍍🍍✨✨🌺 Flashcards

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Old immigrants

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Northern and Western Europe

Ireland, great brittian, Germany

1840s-1890s

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New immigrants

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Southern and Eastern Europe

, Italy, Poland, Hungary

Late 1800s

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Four main push factors

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  1. Population growth
  2. Hunger
  3. scarcity of arable land
  4. Religion
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Push factor definition

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Cause people to leave or want to leave

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Angel VS Ellis island

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Ellis
-less strict
-New York
-6 sec exam
-2% deported

Angel
-Very strict
-San Francisco
-many were deported
-unsanitary
-barracks

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What are pull factors

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Factors that cause ppl to come to a place

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Four main pull factors

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1) free democratic society
2) jobs
3) natural resources
4) the American letters

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Info on Chinese immigrants

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Rode on a boat to Angel island
They were willing to do stoop labor for less
Experienced terrible racism 

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What did the Chinese call California

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The golden mountain

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When and what was the Chinese Exclusionary act

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1882-1892
It excluded Chinese from coming to America except for a couple of them (merchants, teachers, students)

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Mexican immigrant info

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They traveled by foot or Train to the US
A lot left bc or Mexican revolution

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Italian immigrant info 

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Rode on a boat to Ellis
Lived in NY a lot of the time in tiny italys
Valued family closeness

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Padrones

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Ppl to helped the Italians

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European Jews

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Boat to Ellis island
Valued education a LOT
many came to the US bc of religious Persecution

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Nativism

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Policy of favoring the interest of natural born Americans

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Assimilation

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The process by which immigrants acquire the attitude behavior and cultural patterns of society

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_____ was a tool assimilation

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Education

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18
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Settlement houses

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Community centers that provided a lot of services to the poor

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Tenement

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Overcrowded apartments that were dirty and unsanitary

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What is progressivism

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Wanting change

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What were the years of the progressive era

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1890-1920

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Why was there a demand for progressivism (five things)

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Big business
Woman denied rights
Child labor
AA denied rights
Farmer rights 

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Who were the mudrakers 

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A group of journalist who exposed America’s problems

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Who coined the term mudrakers

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Ida Tarbell

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-Exposed standard oil
-role model for women

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Upton Sinclair

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-Expose the meat packing industry
-Wrote the book “the jungle”
-Because of the jungle the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act were made

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Jacob Riis

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-Expose the tenements
-Wrote “how the other half lives”

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Lincoln Steffens

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Expose government corruption

Wrote the “shame of the city”

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What was the populist party

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Party that supported an eight hour workday and it was by the Farmers alliances 

30
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What AA was born into slavery

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Booker T

31
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What AA founded the national businesses league

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Booker T

32
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What AA was born in Massachusetts

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WEB Du Bois

33
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What AA was the first AA to earn a PhD from Harvard

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WEB Du Bois

34
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Which AA would’ve wanted African-American rights right now

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WEB Du Bois

35
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Which AA was born in Jamaica

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Marcus Garvey

36
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What AA support in the back to Africa movement

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Marcus Garvey

37
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What AA met with members of the KKK

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Marcus Garvey

38
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Who was Robert La Follette

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Governor and senator from Wisconsin
Nicknamed fighting bob
Fought against big businesses and railroads

39
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What were the four political reforms from fighting BOB

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Direct primary
Referendum
Initiative
Recall

40
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What was direct primary

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Party members choose candidates (Not political bosses)

41
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What is Initiative

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Citizens can propose and pass laws by popular vote (bill made by citizens)

42
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What is a referendum

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Allowed voters to overturn an existing law

43
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What is a recall

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It allowed voters to remove an elected official from office

44
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Why were child labor laws passed

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Because child labor was cruel in bad

45
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Mother Jones

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She was a woman who believe that Kids and everyone should have better working conditions and she traveled to mines and he finally speeches

46
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Describe the triangle shirtwaist fire (1911)

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Happened because of a match or cigarette

It was hard to get out because the exit only fit one person is they were afraid of people stealing and there was one elevator that fit a handful of people

Many people died

Many people also jumped their death instead of being killed by the flames

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Who is carry nation

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She was a woman Who believed That people should not drink alcohol

She sang Christian songs at bars

She carried Rona is smashed alcohol at bars

48
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Who was Jeanette Rakin

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The first woman in congress 

49
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Who was Alice Paul

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She was an extremist for women’s rights
(Iron jawed angels)

50
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Who was Susan B Anthony

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She helped found the NWSA and was a woman’s rights activist

51
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How did Theodore Roosevelt become president

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He was William McKinley’s vice president and William McKinley was shot

52
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What was the square deal

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-Ends lassies faire
-Did not favor anyone

53
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Conservation 

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Saves land
The antiques act

54
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Consumer protection

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Pure food and drug act
Meat inspection act

55
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Arbitration

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Third-party unbiased

56
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16th amendment

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Federal governments set income tax

57
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Corporation

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A group that came together for one big monopoly like a trust

58
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17th amendment

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Direct election of senators by popular vote

59
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18th amendment

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Alcohol sale is illegal

60
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19th amendment

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Women can vote 

61
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Elkins act

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No more trust rebates

62
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Pure food and drug act

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Safe ingredients and labels
is consumer protection

63
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Meat Inspection act

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Happened because of the jungle
Was a federal inspection of meat
Consumer protection 

64
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Hepburn act

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Made it illegal to offer rebates
Railroads must set rates

65
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Antiques act

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President can protect public land

66
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Payne Aldrich tarrif

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Split Republican party
Raise tariffs

67
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Sherman antitrust act

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Made trusts and monopolies illegal
Cooperations 

68
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Forain act

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No contract labor