PART 2 progressive era

Question 1

Info about Immigrants:

Answer 1

• arrived in late 1800s
• settled in urban areas for economic opportunites
• cities grew rapidly, high demand for housing

Question 2

Ellis Island:

Answer 2

• where most immigrants, it served as primary immigrantion station
• 10 step process for checking in

Question 3

Muckrakers:

Answer 3

investigative reports who exposed corruption, injustice during the progressive era

Question 4

Hull House

Answer 4

settlement House is Chicago, community center that provided education & shelter. Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr, 1889

Question 5

Tenements

Answer 5

where poor immigrants lived, dirty & crowded

Question 6

Gentlemen’s Agreement:

Answer 6

• Informal agreement with US and Japan
• address tension caused by discrimination and allowed wives of Japan immigrant already in the country to join them

Question 7

Education for African Americans:

Answer 7

• limited
• Booker & WEB Dubois advocated for education/helped

Question 8

Anit-lynching Campagin

Answer 8

• Ida B. Wells advocated and investigated to bring attention to campaign

Question 9

Discrimination of African Americans:

Answer 9

• faced segregation, racial violence, limited access to goods & education
• Jim Crow Law/Lynching

Question 10

What were Reasons and Experiences Immigrants came to America?

Answer 10

• CAME to get new jobs, needed for labor, leaving economic problems and war
• EXPERIENCES, Positive: spread their culture & were citizens of USA
  Negative: faced racism, struggled with unemployment and adapting to new culture

Question 11

How did cities grown and change due to immigration?

Answer 11

• rapid urbanization, people sought economic opportunities in cities. populations grew, resulting in ghettos
• people from the same background settled together
• immigrants played critical role in working in factories

Question 12

What were Muckrakers? Identify 2 and how did the public vs government react to there movements?

Answer 12

• they “raked the muck’ to bring attention to issue such has child labor, political corruption, and working conditions.
• Upton Sinclair - exposed unsanitary condition in meat packing industry.

People were shocked and this sparked and outcry. Government had mixed feelings, they were not happy but passed food inspection law in 1906.

Question 13

Second person who was a Muckraker:

Answer 13

Ida Tarbell - exposed corruption business practices of Standard Oil Company, because it controlled prices and threaded business practices.

People were supportive of her. Government was concerned, but took actions and court case in 1906.