https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg Vocabulary en-us 2017-01-17 19:21:06 UTC 2025-12-06 13:04:16 UTC hello@padlet.com 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147656760  The old immigrants arrived in the mid-1800s, coming mostly from northwestern Europe. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147656760 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147657564 new immigrants arrived a generation later, traveling mostly from southeastern Europe. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147657564 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147657881 an isolated or segregated group or area.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147657881 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147658203 William Magear Tweed —often erroneously referred to as "William Marcy Tweed", and widely known as "Boss" Tweed—was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147658203 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147658579 A political group who helps clean up the bad parts of neighborhoods. Gave a lot of immigrants jobs.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147658579 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147660108 a system allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g., gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147660108 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147660384 The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or the Populists, was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147660384 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147660646 The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147660646 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147661043 The United States presidential election of November 3, 1896, saw Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147661043 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147661363 William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147661363 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147661797 Muckrakers Name given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business in the early 20th century. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147661797 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147662482 Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. 

]]> 2017-01-17 19:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147662482 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147662632 Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147662632 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147662828 Jane Adams is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147662828 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147663556 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed on February 18, 1890 to work for women's suffrage in the United States.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147663556 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147663970 An Act— For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147663970 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664137 a person or agency employed to enforce antitrust legislation.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664137 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664347 The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat andmeat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat andmeat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664347 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664614 The Clayton Antitrust Act is an amendment passed by U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing and unfair business practices.

]]> 2017-01-17 19:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664614 10083473 https://padlet.com/10083473/b2oj0fk1ejfg/wish/147664772 The Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, enacted December 23, 1913, 12 U.S.C. ch. 3) is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. 

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