Gilded Age and Progressive Era Quizizz

Match the definition and vocabulary word

• Immigrant

• reasons a person leaves a place

• Push Factor

• People who move to live permanently in a different country

• Persecution

• reasons to come to a specific place

• Pull Factor

• terrible treatment of people due to things like religion or place of origin

Match the definition and vocabulary word

• Ellis Island

• the process by which many people come to live in cities

• Angel Island

• run-down apartments that many immigrants live in when arriving to the US

• Urbanization

• in California

  
  the place many Asian immigrants arrived to America

• Tenement

• in New York

  
  the place many European immigrants arrived to America

Match the definition and vocabulary word

• Monopoly

• a product or business with only ONE seller who can control the price and availability

• Political Machine

• groups who would do anything to make sure their candidate won

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• law passed by Congress that prohibited (prevented/stopped) Chinese workers from entering the country

Match the definition and vocabulary word

• Progressive Movement

• an organized refusal to work in order to bring about changes on the job

• Strike

• a group of workers who join together to get improved working conditions, higher wages, and and shorter hours

• Labor Union

• movement from 1890 to 1920 created to improve conditions for workers

True or False: The FIRST large wave of immigration began in the 1840s with people coming from North and Western Europe along with China. Many of these immigrants would work on the Transcontinental Railroad

• True

• False

True or False: The Progressive Era or Progressive Movement was meant to bring about changes or reforms in the workplace- for example to try and ensure worker safety and help create child labor laws

• True

• False

Place the following events in order

• The Transcontinental Railroad is completed

• The Great Railroad Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Chinese Exclusion Act