Match the term on the left with its definition on the right:
M 17th
Amendment
A. Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," he is famous for his hundred of inventions,
including the incandescent light bulb, phonograph, the Dictaphone, and hundreds of
others.
X American
Federation Of
Labor
B. This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial
segregation so long as facilities were "separate but equal."
E Chinese
Exclusion Act
C. This is the island located at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York City. It was the
main entry point for immigrants to the US between 1892 and 1954.
C Ellis Island
D. This is the site in South Dakota where, in 1890, US soldiers massacred over 150
Lakota men, women, and children.
R Ida Tarbell
E. This law, passed in 1882, forbade any laborers from China to enter the United States
for 10 years.
U Immigration
F. He was the founder and leader of the American Federation of Labor for 38 years and
worked for higher wages for laborers and against socialist and communist presence
within the movement.
G Initiative
G. In political science, this provides a means by which a document signed by a certain
minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote on a proposed statute,
constitutional amendment, charter amendment or ordinance, or it can require the
executive or legislative bodies to consider the subject. It is a form of direct democracy.
1. Jane Addams
H. This is the name of the Federal agency created in 1916 that manages the country's
national monuments, historic sites, and other public spaces of national importance.
I
I. The New York industrialist who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the 19th century
with this Standard Oil Company and pioneered the corporate strategy of horizontal
integration.
John D.
Rockefeller
W Labor Union
J. This was a 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War;
Panama canal was built during his administration; said `Speak softly but carry a big
stick` (1858-1919). He was considered by many to be the nation's first conservation
President.
L Muckrakers
K. This is when citizen are allowed to directly vote on whether to accept or reject a
proposed law.
N NAACP
L. This group of authors and journalists wrote of horrible working conditions in American
industry in the early 20th century, resulting in more governmental protection of workers.
H National Park
Service
M. This amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. senators.
B Plessy V.
Ferguson
N. This is the oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. Members of this have
referred to it as The National Association.
T Pullman Strike O. He was the Lakota Indian Chief who helped defeat General Custer in the Battle of Little
Big Horn in 1876, and whose arrest help to set off the 1890 massacre at Wounded
Knee.
P Recall
P. This is the process the people use to remove an elected official from office.
K Referendum
Q. This was the use of sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers
and increase circulation.
2. Roosevelt
Corollary
R. She was a leading muckracker who wrote the 1904 book The History of the Standard
Oil Company.
F Samuel
S. This is a famous novel written by Upton Sinclair, describing the difficult life of Lithuanian
Gompers
immigrants working in Chicago's Union Stock Yards at the end of the 19th century.
O Sitting Bull
T. This nationwide strike crippled much of the railroad industry in 1894, but was eventually
ended by the Federal government.
Z Standard Oil
Company
U. This is the movement of people into a new country or political unit, resulting in a change
of personal, permanent residence.
S The Jungle
V. This is a financial institution that manages investments, assets, and records for another
institution. They may be an independent partnership, bank or law firm.
J Theodore
Roosevelt
W. This is an organization of workers that negotiates with employers for better pay,
benefits, and working conditions.
A Thomas
Edison
X. This was one of the first groups of labor unions in the United States that later merged
with the CIO.
Y Transcontinental Y. Completed by largely Chinese and Irish labor, this railway was completed in
Railroad
Promontory Point, Utah, 1869, linking the western and eastern parts of the United
States.
V Trust
Z. This was the first major oil trust founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller and dissolved
by the US Supreme Court in 1911.
D Wounded
Knee
1. She was a founder of Hull House, a settlement house that helped immigrants of the late
19th century become acclimated to life in the United States, and was a pioneer in the
field of social work.
Q Yellow
Journalism
2. This policy reasserted the U.S. position as protector of the Western Hemisphere.