Progressive Reformers

This 1917 poster indicates that one important educational goal for new immigrants during this time period was

• teaching them to read and write in their native language

• promoting religious tolerance

• ensuring the preservation of their native cultures

• promoting the English language as a method of assimilation

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

Based on this cartoon, which institutions was Nast criticizing?

• labor unions

• political machines

• settlement houses

• nativist organizations

“The sinks are in the hallway, that all the tenants may have access--an all be poisoned alike by their summer stenches. Hear the pump squeak! It is the lullaby of tenement house babes. In summer, when a thousand thirsty throats pant for a cooling drink in this block, it is worked in vain..”

--How the Other Halve Lives--Jacob Riis 1890

• Muckrakers exposed immigrants living in tenements in cities.

• Muckrakers exposed former slaves living in the deep South.

• Muckrakers exposed exudusters living in the southwest.

• Muckrakers exposed Native Americans living on Reservations.

 Images such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were — 

• requiring vocational training programs for children
• employing children as a source of cheap labor
• seeking government regulation of child labor
• providing safe working conditions for child laborers

What was the purpose of the Temperance Movement?

• Support immigrant rights
• Oppose the consumption of alcohol
• Gain women the right to vote
• Prevent unsafe working conditions

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages?

• Nativists
• Miners
• Political Bosses
• Labor Leaders

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as

• Educated professionals
• Factory Workers/ Sweatshop Workers
• Skilled Workers
• Scientists

In the late 1800's, what was the the government response to Chinese Immigration to the United States?

• Rounding them up and putting them in concentration camps

• Shipping them back to Asia

• Signing the Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sent the Chinese immigrants to Native American reservations

Which idea made popular during the Gilded Age stated that the most important law in nature was survival of the fittest and PEOPLE were naturally selected to succeed?

• social darwinists
• political bosses
• nativists
• political machines