Industrial Revolution
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
Muckrakers
Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
Tenement Houses
6 or 7 story houses built on narrow lots, unsafe and unsanitary housing for poor city residents.
Settlement Houses
Community centers located in the slums and near tenements that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants
Immigration - Colonial Era
Mostly English; Reasons - religious freedom, mercantilism, land grants, to avoid English Debtor's Law
Immigration in the early 19th century
Eastern US: German and Irish
Western US: Chinese
Irish Immigration
Caused largely by the potato famine
German Immigration
seen as mostly skilled craftsmen or farmers and settled in tightly knit communities nearer the midwest US
Chinese Immigration
Gold Rush attracted these immigrants who then stayed to complete the Transcontinental Railroad
Mill Girls
Women who worked at textile mills during the Industrial Revolution who enjoyed new freedoms and independence not seen before.
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs; its creation was spurred by Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle
Cesar Chavez
1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.
Greensboro Four
College Students that sat at a segregated lunch counter and refused to get up
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
Native Americans, Women, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, African Americans
Minorities in the US who have a history of being denied their civil rights
Japanese Internment
110,000 men, women and children-were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior during WWII; these citizens lost everything and were compensated a mere $20,000 in the 1980's.
Tammany Hall
an organization seeking political control by corruption
Monopoly
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
Charity Organization Society
The program developed in the 1870s to coordinate private charities