Social Studies

Question 1

push factors

Answer 1

reasons to LEAVE your country.

Question 2

pull factors

Answer 2

reasons to go to ANOTHER country.

Question 3

Ellis Island

Answer 3

the building (on an island) in NYC that boats in Europe drop immigrants off to be checked.

Question 4

Angel Island

Answer 4

the building (on an island) in San Fransisco that boats in Asia drop immigrants off to be checked.

Question 5

Statue of Liberty

Answer 5

A gift from France after we helped each other in the American Revolution.
(Gustav Eiffel)

Question 6

assimulate

Answer 6

to blend together in society.

Question 7

settlement homes

Answer 7

homes that helped new immigrants with educations, filling out paperwork, doctors appointments, etc.
(created by Jane Addams)

Question 8

mosaics

Answer 8

groups of immigrants that stayed together because of language, religion culture, etc.

Question 9

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 9

a senator that did not like Irish people because they were taking americans jobs. Tried to ban them but failed.

Question 10

nativists

Answer 10

the immigrants that came to the United States first.

Question 11

The Burlingame Treaty

Answer 11

the treaty that allowed the Chinese to come in and out of the country whenever they wanted because they were such good workers.

Question 12

The Chinese exclusion act

Answer 12

The law that stopped the chinese from coming into the US because they were taking jobs away.

Question 13

The gentlemens agreement

Answer 13

a tradeoff that said the US would protect the Japanese people in the country, as long as Japan would not send any more in.

Question 14

tenement buildings

Answer 14

a type of apartment complex that was croweded and unsanitary because there was not a law that said owners had to keep them clean.

Question 15

muckrakers

Answer 15

people who wanted to expose living conditions so it could be changed.

Question 16

Jacob Riis

Answer 16

a muckraker who wrote a book about how bad the tenement buildings were. led to the tenement housing act

Question 17

Tenement Housing Act

Answer 17

forced owners to put windows in tenement buildings that led to the outside and also forced owners to install toilets.

Question 18

Upton Sinclair

Answer 18

a muckraker that wrote a book about how bad meat packing was in Chicago. led to the meat inspection act and the pure food and drugs act.

Question 19

Fredrick Olmstead

Answer 19

designed a lot of famous parks in cities.

Question 20

Leisure Time

Answer 20

free time. (more free time after electricity was invented)

Question 21

corrupt

Answer 21

evil

Question 22

political machine

Answer 22

where evil politicians would cheat their way into success.

Question 23

spoils system

Answer 23

where an elective leader picks random people for public jobs.

Question 24

public jobs

Answer 24

jobs where people are payed from sociey’s taxes.

Question 25

merit system

Answer 25

a test that determines what people are qualified for public jobs. Passed after people realized how bad the spoils system was.

Question 26

William “Boss” Tweed

Answer 26

an elective leader that starts a Tweed Ring, where he picked his friends for public jobs and bribes people with money.

Question 27

Thomas Nast

Answer 27

was a political cartoonist who wrote about how bad william tweed was, and declined the bribes from William Tweed. caused Tweed to get arrested.

Question 28

kickbacks

Answer 28

where the government wants a business to cost them more money so they have extra money in the end. (peoples taxes)

Question 29

Oregon System

Answer 29

putting politics in the hands of the people.

Question 30

16th amendment

Answer 30

progressive income tax. the more money you make, the more money you pay.

Question 31

17th amendment

Answer 31

direct election of senators by the people.

Question 32

suffragette

Answer 32

someone who fights for women’s rights.

Question 33

Elizabeth Katie Stanton

Answer 33

a suffragette that wanted women to be able to vote after she noticed how unfair they were treated in her childhood.

Question 34

Seneca Fall Convention

Answer 34

where the “declaration of sentiments” was changed to “all men AND women are equal”

Question 35

Silent Sentinels

Answer 35

where women would stand silently in front of the white house to protest for women’s rights.

Question 36

Alice Paul’s March

Answer 36

a march for rights… women said they “demanded” rights and the men got mad at them, harassed them, 100 women hospitalized and tons of women arrested.

Question 37

Iron Jaws

Answer 37

a tube that was used to force feed women. the president found out that people in jails were doing this and passed the 19th amendment.

Question 38

19th amendment

Answer 38

womens right to vote (suffrage)

Question 39

18th amendment

Answer 39

banned alchohol, illegal to make, buy or sell.

Question 40

Rum Runners

Answer 40

where people went to canada, bought alchohol, and sold it in the US in flasks.

Question 41

speakeasy

Answer 41

places that gave out alcohol. sold free beer but made people buy the beer plus another item

Question 42

Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 42

*sickly child
*father bought himself out of the military and he didn’t like that
*mother and wife died on the same day
*goes to the badlands-heals himself through nature
*became president

Question 43

Trustbusters

Answer 43

Teddy Roosevelt ordered the Department of Justice to go after bad monopolies.

Question 44

Anthracite coal mine strike

Answer 44

coldest winter, owners forced workers to work even more with no raise.

Question 45

conservation laws

Answer 45

laws to protect the forests and national parks and landforms.

Question 45

arbitrate

Answer 45

to come to an agreement. (TR then took the coal company, fired all the workers, and made the Marines work in the coal mines after they refused to arbitrate with the workers.)

Question 46

Taft

Answer 46

passes the 16th amendment

Question 47

Wilson

Answer 47

passes the federal trade commission

Question 48

federal trade commission

Answer 48

where the government watches businesses to make sure they don’t cheat.