S.S test 2\10\25 Flashcards
What is a push factor?
A factor that makes people leave a country
Push factors can include war, famine, and persecution.
What is a pull factor?
A factor that pulls people to a country
Pull factors can include job opportunities, freedom, and better living conditions.
Define nativist.
An American who sought to limit immigration and wanted people only born from the country to live there.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the country excluding Chinese.
What is urbanization?
The movement of people from farms to cities.
What is a tenement?
A small crowded living space in a city slum building.
What is a settlement house?
Community centers that offered service to the poor.
What is Hull House?
A settlement house founded by the progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago, 1889.
What are building codes?
Set standards by the government for building, construction, and safety.
Who was Jane Addams?
Progressive reformer who opened Hull House and helped the poor.
What is a muckraker?
Any group of American writers in World War 1 who exposed bad business practices to the public in the late 1800s.
What was the Progressive Movement?
Change in America to improve the quality of American life.
Who was Boss Tweed?
An American politician who was very corrupt and cheated NYC out of 100 million dollars.
What are political cartoons?
Cartoons made to show a political idea.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
A muckraker who exposed Rockefeller and was against women’s suffrage.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Author of ‘The Jungle’ which exposed the conditions in the meat factory.
What is ‘The Jungle’?
‘The Jungle’ is the book made by Upton Sinclair to expose the meat factory.
What is ‘How the Other Half Lives’?
‘How the Other Half Lives’ is the book Jacob Riis made to show the living conditions in the slums.
Define trustbuster.
A person who wanted to destroy all trusts.
What is the Square Deal?
Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign that ensured all people had the same chance to succeed.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
The 26th president who made the Square Deal and tried to end corruption and fix living conditions for the public.
What is conservation?
All those actions taken toward the long-term preservation of cultural heritage.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
Government agency allowed to investigate companies and order them to stop using unfair practices to destroy competitors.
What was the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
A campaign guaranteeing women the right to vote.
What is Prohibition?
Legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.
What does NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What does it mean to lynch?
To be hung by a mob.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Born into slavery and looked to educate other African Americans.
What is yellow journalism?
The sensational reporting style of the World and the Journal because they offered less news.
