Immigration / Industrialization Key Terms

A. Progressive Era / Movement - a period when people became active to make a better government.

B. Muckraker - journalists who wrote about corrupt laws for popular magazines.

C. Social Gospel - a protestant Christian movement that focused on issues like excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, racial tensions and child labors.

D. Social Darwinism - a belief in which the stronger states will go further in the society than weaker states; came from "survival of the fittest".

E. Americanization - when immigrants in the United States shares American values, beliefs and styles.

F. Nativists / Nativisms - people who favors the natives than the immigrants.

G. Europe - Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Italy, Greece, Spain & Portugal.

H. Political Machine - a group that controls the activities of a potical party.

I. Andrew Carneige - Scottish-American industrialist who led the American steel industry.

J. Horizontal / Vertical Integration - business strategy that promote growth of a company and monopolizing.

K. Urban - high population places in the cities.

L. Upton Sinclair - American author and candidate for governor of California.

M. Meat Inspection Act - prevents mislabeled meat products to be sold as food.

N. Trust / Monopoly - when companies own all parts of a business to reduce competition.

O. Graft - a political corruption when politicians receive bribes from the people.

P. Hull Houses - settlement houses for poor immigrants in the late 18 & 19th century.

Q. Jane Addams - a settlement worker, founded the Hull House in Chicago, leader in women suffrage & world peace.

R. Cesar Chavez - civil rights activist, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.

S. Immigration Act of 1965 - eliminated the origins quota system replacing it with a preference system that focused on family relationships.

T. Immigration - when npeople move to live in a foreign country.

U. Alexander Graham Bell - scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who invented the first telephone.

V. George Eastman - American innovator, founded the company that invented film that helped bring photography to mainstream.

W. Thomas Edison - American inventor, and businessman, invented phonograph, motion picture camera and the electric light bulb.

X. Henry Bessener - English engineer, inventor nd businessman, improved the process of making steel.

Y. Reform - improving of what is wrong, corrupt and unsatisfactory to the people.