Big Business

Groups of workers who wanted to obtain better working conditions, _______were held in order to obtain such conditions.

• Ellis Island and Angel Island

• Monopolies

• Labor Unions and Strikes

• Pull Factors of Immigration

A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety.

• tenement

• monopolies

• alliances

• progressive

economic troubles, overcrowding, and poverty

• mechanization of agriculture

• pull factors of immigration

• push factors of immigration

• labor unions and strikes

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Federal Meat Inspection Act

This was passed in 1924 which cut quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2% of the total number of immigrants. The main purpose was to freeze America's existing racial composition to mostly Northern European. It also prevented Japanese immigration which led to fury in Japan.

• Immigration Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Sherman Anti-trust Act

• Federal Meat Inspection Act

An 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Federal Meat Inspection Act

jobs, greater freedom, and land

• pull factors of immigration

• mechanization of agriculture

• labor unions and strikes

• Chinese Immigration Act

First time immigration would go through one of these posts to come into the US or stay until they were healthy.

• Ellis Island and Angel Island

• Philadelphia

• Miami

• Cincinnati

Movie forward, a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform.

• progressives

• monopolies

• child labor

• tenement

Journalist who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public.

• muckrakers

• skateboarders

• tennis players

• John D Rockefellar