What were some push factors of immigrants?

Persecution, famine, political repression, economic hardship, war, lack of jobs

Immigrant processing center for Europeans in NYC.

Immigrant processing center for Asians in San Francisco. Harsher and more prison like than Ellis Island.

Clean water, sanitation, disease, transportation, crime, inadequate housing

Chlorinating and filtering water, garbage disposal, subways and streetcars, creation of fire and police departments

Journalists trying to expose corruption

Wrote The Jungle to expose the disgusting food factory conditions

Corrupt political boss in New York City. Took care of immigrants to insure their votes.

Progressive US president who wanted all Americans to have a "Square Deal." He pushed for better conditions and regulations for food production, fought corrupt trusts, and was a conservationist of public land

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns

Suffragette leaders instrumental in getting woment the right to vote.

Late 1800's - early 1900's when the last of Western tribes were force to live on reservations.

Leader and shaman of the Lakota that defeated Custer and the 7th Regiment at Little Big Horn.

Site of a Christmas time massacre of a band of Dakota after a gun went off.

Ways that African Americans were kept from voting.

Violence, literacy tests, and poll taxes.

Early African American Activist who was a political advocate who fought to end white oppression

Early African American leader who felt that blacks should just try to better their lives by working hard and accepting discrimination for the time being.

Native American Boarding Schools

Schools where native children with the goal of assimilating them to white American culture and education.

the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. i.e. when suffragettes refused to pay fines and went on a hunger strike in prison

Way state voters can put a new law on the ballot

Way state voters can change an existing law by putting it on the ballot

Way state voters can remove state officials from their offices by putting it up for a vote.

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Progressive Reforms

Unit 2 Progressives

Question	Answer
Where were most immigrants coming into the US after 1890 from?	Eastern and Southern Europe
What were some push factors of immigrants?	Persecution, famine, political repression, economic hardship, war, lack of jobs
What were some pull factors of immigrants?	Jobs, family, freedom, land
Ellis Island	Immigrant processing center for Europeans in NYC.
Angel Island	Immigrant processing center for Asians in San Francisco. Harsher and more prison like than Ellis Island.
Urban Problems	Clean water, sanitation, disease, transportation, crime, inadequate housing
Urban Solutions	Chlorinating and filtering water, garbage disposal, subways and streetcars, creation of fire and police departments
Muckrackers	Journalists trying to expose corruption
Upton Sinclair	Wrote The Jungle to expose the disgusting food factory conditions
Boss Tweed	Corrupt political boss in New York City. Took care of immigrants to insure their votes.
Theordore Roosevelt	Progressive US president who wanted all Americans to have a "Square Deal." He pushed for better conditions and regulations for food production, fought corrupt trusts, and was a conservationist of public land
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns	Suffragette leaders instrumental in getting woment the right to vote.
19th Amendment	Gave women the right to vote.
Reservation Period	Late 1800's - early 1900's when the last of Western tribes were force to live on reservations.
Sitting Bull	Leader and shaman of the Lakota that defeated Custer and the 7th Regiment at Little Big Horn.
Wounded Knee	Site of a Christmas time massacre of a band of Dakota after a gun went off.
Ways that African Americans were kept from voting.	Violence, literacy tests, and poll taxes.
W.E.B Dubois	Early African American Activist who was a political advocate who fought to end white oppression
Booker T. Washington	Early African American leader who felt that blacks should just try to better their lives by working hard and accepting discrimination for the time being.
Native American Boarding Schools	Schools where native children with the goal of assimilating them to white American culture and education.
Civil Disobedience	the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. i.e. when suffragettes refused to pay fines and went on a hunger strike in prison
16th Amendment	Created a US income tax
17th Amendment	Direct election of Senators
18th Amendment	Prohibition
19th Amendment	Women's sufferage
21st Amendment	Repealed Prohibition
Initiative	Way state voters can put a new law on the ballot
Referendum	Way state voters can change an existing law by putting it on the ballot
Recall	Way state voters can remove state officials from their offices by putting it up for a vote.

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