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Industrial Revolution
People in this time period used mashines to help them work faster and better, but were more dangerous. For example hundreds of people died in the Triangle Shirtwaste Factory. They had payed employees with little pay and their boss would be called robber barons or captain of industry, depending if they only acquired fortune or they give to America. This also created employees to work for only one job and they used mashines to help, this made mass production. -
Robber Barons
"Robber Barons" were people who were rich and didn't help the U.S as much. -
Captain of Industry
They were people who contributed to the U.S. -
Indusrtial Revolution
The industrial revolution was an increase in production brought about by the use of machines. -
Child Labor
Children worked in dangerous jobs. Such as sweat shops, factories and mines. -
Woman Suffarge
1848 to 1920, women fought, sreamed and more to get the right to vote. They wanted to be equal to all men because it was unfair for men, but not women getting the right to vote. So passage of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. -
Conservation Movement
A case for conserving or preserving different parts of nature from politicians, activists, naturalists, authors, and artists -
Immigration first started
Immigration was when people from other places come to places they weren't from. They had to work for dangerous jobs like factories, mines and ect. Woman and men risk their lives to get money becuase they are so poor. Even child labor was created, it was when childern work for money for 14 hours a day, wth little pay. -
Chinease exclusion act of 1882
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT
Sherman Aantitrust Act was made by President Theodore Roosevelt to the Congress. He was president from 1901 to 1909. This act was a result of the gilded age, the gilded age involved -
Progressive Era
This time lasted from 1890's to the 1920's and it was a widespread political, economic, and social reform. Some goals of the Progressive Era were tax reform, women suffarge, political reform, and industrial regulations. Industrial regulations were just workers or employees rights. There is still one more goal that the Progressive Era tried to complete it was the environmental regulations. -
Triangle shirtwaist factory fire
People came and worked in factories like these and demanded to be treated better with pay, respect, and more. Then someone payed someone to burn down the building and hundreds died. -
Nativism
An investigation anti-immigrant attitudes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . -
Immagration act of 1924
Act passed by the U.S. Congress which ended restrictions that had blocked most Asian immigration. -
Immiration today
11-12 million illegal immigrants here today and California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida were the five states with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants.
