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Old Immigration
Germans, Scandinavians, Irish, Scots and English -
Thomas Nast
Boss tweed cartoonist -
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Gilded age
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Light bulb Edison
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New Immigration
Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia, Austria-Hungary, etc)
China and Japan
Jewish -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Haymarket riot
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Sherman Antitrust act
Made it illegal to form a trust and monopolization
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Settlement houses
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Jacob Riis
Photography and journalism to reveal the awful living conditions of the urban poor in NYC -
Homestead Strike
major industrial labor strike at the Carnegie Steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
one of the most violent labor conflict -
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Ida Tarbell
Exposed Rockefeller's monopolistic practices, which contributed to the breakup of Standard Oil -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Led to the Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act -
Progressive Party
Established after Theodore Roosevelt lost against William Howard Taft
Bull Moose Party