Unit 6 Flash Cards
Author of "The Jungle" who changed the meat packing industry forever.
Upton
Sinclair
Temperance
leader who
busted up bars
with a hatchet
Carrie
Nation
Cartoonist who took down Boss Tweed with his political cartoons in NYC.
Thomas
Nast
Known as
the trust
buster.
Teddy
Roosevelt
Socialist
labor
reformer
Eugene
V. Debbs
Photographer
who documented
the lives of the
urban poor.
Jacob
Riis
Established
Hull House.
Jane
Adams
Supported vocational training for Af. Americans and pushed for slow gradual change of Af. Americans
Booker T.
Washington
Created
the Square
Deal
Teddy
Roosevelt
Support immediate equality for Af. Americans and help to create the NAACP.
WEB
Dubois
Forced Af.
Americans voters
to take a complex
test before voting.
Literacy
Test
Forced Af.
Americans to
pay to vote
Poll
Tax
Separate
facilities for Af.
Americans and
whites
Jim
Crow
Unwritten rules that governed the way that Af. Americans in the south should behave.
Racial
Etiquette
Supreme Court case that established the idea of separate but equal was OK.
Plessy v.
Ferguson
The Wright
Brothers
invented the
first…
Air
Plane
Frederick
Olmsted was a
leader in urban
________
Parks
The patronage system provided \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ for supporters of political candidates.
Jobs
Corrupt leader
of Tammany
Hall
Boss
Tweed
Problems
early cities
faced…
Poor sanitation, poor water quality, lack of good housing, lack of trash disposal
The idea that all
nationalities
would blend into
a single culture
Melting
Pot Theory
Ellis Island
handled
immigrants
from ____
Europe
Angel Island
handled
immigrants
from _____
Asia
Tenements
were dwellings
inhabited by
______
The
poor