1. Immigration and Progressive Era Study Guide

2. What were the reasons for the increase in immigration?
Hope for a better opportunities.

3. Desire for religious freedom.

4. Escape from oppressive governments.

5. Desire for adventure.

6. What were the negative effects of the increase in immigration?
Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements.

7. Cities faced the challenges of ghettos and political corruption (political machines).

8. Immigrants faced discrimination, especially the Chinese and Irish immigrants.

9. What efforts were made to solve immigration problems?
Settlement houses, such as Hull House founded by Jane Addams.

10. Political machines that gained power by attending to the needs of new immigrants who needed jobs and housing.

11. What were the negative effects of industrialization that often affected immigrants?

12. Child Labor

13. Low Wages, Long Hours

14. Unsafe Working Conditions

15. Triangle Factory Fire

16. How did the workers respond to these negative effects?
Formation of unions, for example the American Federation of Labor.

17. Strikes, for example the Homestead Strike and its aftermath.

18. How did the Progressive Movement and its reforms change the United States?
Improved safety conditions

19. Reduced work hours

20. Placed restrictions on child labor.

21. How did the Progressive Movement Affect Women?
It increased educational opportunities for women.

22. It attained women’s suffrage with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

23. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked for women’s suffrage.

25. How did the Progressive Movement impact the Temperance Movement?
The Temperance Movement was composed of groups that opposed the making and consuming of alcohol.

26. It supported the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages.