| A | B |
|---|
| muckraker | An individual who exposes what's wrong with America |
| Knights of Labor | early labor union, eventually open to unskilled workers |
| Poor working conditions (examples) | Low Pay, Long Hours, Terrible Living Conditions, Unsafe Conditions, Child Labor |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | Tragedy on March 25, 1911 in which 146 women died in one hour. |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Passed in 1890, sought to break up monoplies. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | Income Tax |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Direct Election of Senators |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Prohibition (of purchase and sale of alcoholic beverages) |
| Nineteenth Amendment | established suffrage for women |
| melting pot | blending of many cultures to make up America |
| Pullman Strike | Railroad Strike, Ended with an injunction |
| Haymarket Riot | Protest at which eight were killed, fifty were injured |
| Yellow Journalism | Using sensationalism to sell papers |
| Spanish American War | Cuba is freed from Spain because of this |
| Pull factors | Reasons immigrants came to America |
| Push factors | Reasons immigrants left a country |
| Angel Island, Ellis Island | Immigration Processing Stations |
| Problems faced by Immigrants | Discrimination, limited job opportunities, poor living conditions, limited opportunities to own land |
| American Federation of Labor | Gompers established this skilled labor union |
| Alaska | 49th state, bought for $7.2 million from Russia in 1959 |
| Hawaii | 50th state, taken over by the United States in 1959 |
| The Maine | Blew up in Havannah Harbor, resulted in yellow journalism in the U.S- was a major reason Americans supported the Spanish American War |
| Ida Tarbell | muckraker who helped defeat Standard Oil Company |
| Jacob Riis | muckraking photographer and author of "How the Other Half Lives" |
| Thomas Nast | muckraking cartoonist who exposed corrupt Boss Tweed |
| Upton Sinclair | muckraker who tried to improve the meat-packing industry |
| assimilation | process of becoming part of another culture |
| territories US gained after Span-Amer War | Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines |
