Unit 5B Vocabulary

Question 1

The belief that native-born white Americans are superior to new comers

Answer 1

Nativism

Question 2

A party organization that controls the activities of a political party in a city

Answer 2

Political Machine

Question 3

Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination & to achieve political rights and civil rights for African Americans

Answer 3

NAACP

Question 4

Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization & urbanization by promoting reforms

Answer 4

Progressive Movement

Question 5

Writer who uncovers & exposes misconduct in politics or business

Answer 5

Muckrakers

Question 6

Journalist who publicized the crisis in housing, education, & poverty in the height of the European immigration in NYC

Answer 6

Jacob Riis

Question 7

1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines & required federal inspection of meat processing plants

Answer 7

Meat Inspection Act

Question 8

1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine & banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs

Answer 8

Pure Food and Drug Act