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

economic troubles, overcrowding, and poverty

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.

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.

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

jobs, greater freedom, and land

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

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

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

Agreements between nations to aid and protect one another.

Built a steel mill empire, US Steel

Using Children to work in factories and businesses

In agriculture, the replacement of human labor with technology and machines.

the growth of cities

Corporations that gain complete control of the production of a single good or service.

A policy in which a strong nation to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.

Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history.

Enforced some federal inspection and mandated sanitary conditions in all companies selling meat.

1906- Forbid the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs. Still in existence as the FDA.