3. Gilded Age/Progressive Era

What was the purpose of Ellis Island?

• To have a place to receive, examine, and process immigrants to the US

• As a place to house immigrants who couldn't afford an apartment near where they worked.

• To allow the city government a place to meet and discuss urban problems.

• To have a place to put schools for immigrants to teach them English and other basic skills.

The ________ worked on the Central Pacific Railroad for low wages and dangerous work.

• Mexican Immigrants

• Italian Immigrants

• Chinese Immigrants

• German Immigrants

How founded the Hull House, a settlement house started by Jane Addams for poor women and children.

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

• Andrew Carneige

_________ wrote a book called "How the Other Half Lives" exposing the harsh living conditions of the poor

• Jacob Riis

• John D. Rockefeller

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

Why did the US build the Panama Canal?

• They wanted to be in control of everything in Latin America

• They wanted a shorter route to and from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans for trade

• Cuba asked them to build it for them.

• The Philippines did not have anything the US wanted so we did not help them recover from war.

What is a muckraker?

• a yellow journalist

• progressive reformer

• an investigative journalist

• a type of fisherman important after the Great Depression

Who was responsible for starting Standard Oil Trust?

• Andrew Carneige

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Ford

• Gerald Ford

Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle exposed..

• John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust

• Andrew Carnegie's Steel Corporation's monopoly

• The unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry

• unfair labor union laws

Who is a robber baron?

• Tarbell

• Riis

• Rockefeller

• Sinclair

The main cause of the Spanish-American War was...

• Spain wanted to colonize Florida again.

• America hated anything that had to do with Spain.

• America wanted to expand its sphere of influence into Latin America