The Progressive Movement - Developed to address the problems caused by industry and city migration, Muckrakers - Journalist that Investigated big businesses to expose corruption, "Gospel of Wealth" - Carnegie said Rich people are in charge of their money, Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 - result of the Jungle, prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs, Meat Inspection Act 1906 - Result of the Jungle, ensured meat and meat products were being slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions, The Hull House - Created by Jane Addams to educate poor people in the neighborhoods of Chicago, 19th Amendment - Gave women the right to vote, 18th Amendment - Banned the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors, Election of 1912 - Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote, giving the election to Woodrow Wilson, Bull Moose Party - Progressive party that supported minimum wage of women, child labor laws, 8hr work day, 16th Amendment - Congress has the power to collect taxes on income, 17th Amendment - the people vote for their senators, Clayton Antitrust Act - declared strikes, boycotts, and labor unions were legal under federal law, The Federal Reserve Act - gave the 12 federal banks the ability to print money to ensure economic stability, Immigrants - City populations increased because of, Eastern Europe - New Immigrants were from, they were disliked, Nativism - Lead to the resentment of immigrant populations, I am from here, you are not, Political Machines - someone who is popular enough to gain control over political administrations, "Boss" Tweed - A political machine leader who gained support from immigrants by bribing them with jobs and housing, Farmers are hurting - Due to farm technology, prices dropped, defaulted on their loans, and lost their land, African American left the south because of - Jim Crow laws, segregation, intimidation, Scabs - Immigrants and African Americans who took the place of Strikers, Increase in immigration and migration - Lead to overcrowding, sanitation issues, and crime, Capitalism - Free enterprise, people own the businesses, 4 Factors that gave the US an advantage in industrialization - Technology, free enterprise, natural resources, large workforce, Homestead Act - 160 acres if you improved the land, Vertical Integration - Company owns different businesses in the line of production, Carnegie, Horizontal Integration - Combining the same businesses to create one large corporation, Rockefeller , Pacific Railway Act 1862 - Act that Made the Transcontinental Railroad, Government Subsides - money given by the government to help the failures and shortcomings of businesses and people,

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