1. A Time to Improve American Society

2.  To leave one’s homeland to settle permanently in another country  PUSH factors include: bad government, hunger, religious persecution, not enough land, crop failure,need jobs, the economy.

3.  A group of people who share a language and culture  Often new immigrants stayed with others from their ethnic group  In large urban centers ethnic neighborhoods formed and assimilation into American society slowed down

4.  Crowded, noisy place in the lowest part of a ship where passage is the cheapest  Many of the immigrants to America arrived aboard steerage  Always the danger of passing on disease

5.  Factory where workers worked long hours for very low wages in unsafe conditions  Often dangerous  Often employed women and children  Many immigrants took these jobs  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

6.  When you begin to blend in and learn about the language and culture of the majority of people in the country  Often immigrants assimilated through public schools  Settlement houses offered help  Role of women and different religions made it hard to assimilate to American culture

7.  Building that had many people living in conditions without a lot of sanitation and safety  Typical apartment had 3 rooms  Usually residents were poor  Located in slum areas of urban city

8.  Poor, run-down, crowded neighborhood  Tenements in them  Poor sanitation  Lack of clean water  Often had a particular ethnic group that settled there

9.  Middle-class, better homes  Outside the city…these were residential neighborhoods  Better transportation like subways, cars, and trolleys  Building of bridges made suburbs more practical for middle class

10.  Time where few people rich but most were poor  Name from book by Mark Twain  Meaning- just under the surface, society has lots of problems, poverty, and injustice

11.  Provided community services  English classes, libraries, playgrounds, medical attention  Located in poor neighborhoods

12.  Federal government gave states land to sell to fund these schools  Morrill Act  Auburn and Miss. State  Women, Native Americans, and African Americans got more opportunities

13.  Newspapers ran gruesome dramatic details of a story to attract more readers  Sensational, biased, and often false reporting  Exaggeration

14.  Spoils system  Jobs given as favors after an election  Often these people were not qualified for the jobs  Caused the Pendleton Act- require civil service workers to take competitive tests

15.  the Pendleton Act- required civil service workers to take competitive tests  Federal government workers who are not elected or appointed

16.  Companies that bind together in a legal agreement to reduce competition  Standard Oil is a trust

17.  Journalist and reporters who exposed bad things in society  Wrote stories, reports, and books to get attention given to topics that needed to be changed

18.  Person who fought for women’s right to vote  Man or woman  Alice Paul- brought the idea of protest marches and hunger strikes from England’s suffragists to America  Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920  Many western states had women’s suffrage already  First state..was Wyoming

19.  Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making and selling of alcohol  Ratified in 1919  The 21 st Amendment repealed this Act  NASCAR racing was a result of illegal “moonshine” runners

20.  Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt  Someone who broke up “bad” trusts into smaller companies  Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up these companies

21.  Roosevelt promised “square deal” which meant equal and fair treatment for all

22.  French phrase  Means ”let the people do as they wish”  Idea that government should not interfere nation’s economy or regulate businesses  Many rich men like railroad Barons and Rockefeller did not want government to regulate them.

23.  Protection and preservation of natural resources  Theodore Roosevelt believed in conservation and made National forests and Parks

24.  Unfair treatment of people based on race, religion, gender or other differences  Many immigrants faced discrimination especially because of religion  People faced discrimination because of poverty (socio-economic class)  African American and Chinese were facing discrimination and lynching  Ida B. Wells- wrote about lynching

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