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Progressive EraA Time to Improve American
Society
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.
1.Emigrate
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
2.Ethnic group
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
3.Steerage
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
4.Sweatshop
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
5.Assimilate
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
6.Tenement
Poor, run-down, crowded neighborhood Tenements in them Poor sanitation Lack of clean water Often had a particular ethnic group that
settled there
7.Slum
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
8. Suburb
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
9. Gilded Age
Provided community services English classes, libraries, playgrounds,
medical attention Located in poor neighborhoods
10. Settlement House
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
11.Land-grant college
Newspapers ran gruesome dramatic details of a story to attract more readers
Sensational, biased, and often false reporting
Exaggeration
12.Yellow-journalism
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
13.Patronage
the Pendleton Act- required civil service workers to take competitive tests
Federal government workers who are not elected or appointed
14.Civil service
Companies that bind together in a legal agreement to reduce competition
Standard Oil is a trust
15.Trust
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
16.Muckrakers
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
17.Suffragist
Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making and selling of alcohol
Ratified in 1919 The 21st Amendment repealed this Act NASCAR racing was a result of illegal
“moonshine” runners
18.Prohibition
Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt Someone who broke up “bad” trusts into
smaller companies Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to
break up these companies
19.Trustbuster
Roosevelt promised “square deal” which meant equal and fair treatment for all
20.Square Deal
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.
21. Laissez-faire
Protection and preservation of natural resources
Theodore Roosevelt believed in conservation and made National forests and Parks
22. Conservation
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
23. Discrimination
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