Immigration and progressive

Jane Addams

1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom.

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890 law banning illegal business practices

Jacob Riis

A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

William Tweed (Boss Tweed)

A corrupt politician in New York City who secured votes from immigrants after giving them a job and home

Nativism

A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones

16th Amendment

Allows the federal government to collect income tax

Urbanization

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

19th amendment

Gave women the right to vote

Alice Paul

Head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Leader of Nassau less radical then Alice paul

Thomas nast

Newspaper cartoonist who produced satirical cartoons, he invented "Uncle Sam" and came up with the elephant and the donkey for the political parties. He nearly brought down Boss Tweed.

Tenements

Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

Assimilation

Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture the old immigrants had an easier tike because they were a more respected relgion and a large percentage of the population in america at the time spoke similar languages to them, for the new tgis was reversed

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Teddy Roosevelt and his opinion on trusts

Wanted to abolish monopolies and teusts

Temperance

abstinence from alcoholic drink

Upton Sinclair

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.

Pure Food and Drug Act

the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs

Suffrage

the right to vote

Muckraker

writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business