Yellow Journalism

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Yellow Journalism

• Sensational writing that attracted readers

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Settlement House

• Provided services like medical care and libraries
  to people In poor neighborhoods

3
Steerage

• The only quarters on ships that most immigrants
  could afford

4
Panama Canal

• Roosevelt organized and financed a revolt to
  obtain this

5
Socialists

• Believed the government should own major
  industries to be operated on behalf of all the
  people

6
Political Machines

• Corrupt organizations that controlled local
  politics

7
Ellis Island

• Center where immigrants were processed before
  being allowed in the country

8
Progressives

• Believed industry should be regulated by the
  government

9
Julia Clifford Lathrop

• Helped found the Immigrants Protective League

10
Progressive Education

• Shaped students characters and taught them good
  citizenship

11
Land-Grant Colleges

• Admitted women students

12
Frederick Law Olmsted

• Leader in the City Beautiful movement

13
Patronage

• System in which political supporters are rewarded
  with jobs and favors

14
Chinese Exclusion Act

• Passed in response to navitism

15
Referendum

• Gave voters the opportunity to accept or reject
  acts passed by the legislature

16
Conservation

• The protection and preservation of natural
  resources

17
New immigrants

• Came from southern and eastern Europe

18
Plessy v. Ferguson

• Legalized segregation

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tenement

• Apartment building in the slums with small, dark
  rooms

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John Philip Sousa

• Composed distinctively American marches