Ellis Island in New YorkAngel Island in San Francisco

In one of the darkest moments of America's industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 146 worker...

The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers.

Period of Great African American artistic accomplishment that began in the 1920s in the Harlem neighborhood of NYC

The expansion of transport and communication during the 19th century created a need for a unified time-keeping system, and time zones were introduced.

They were laws that enforced the strict separation (segregation) of the races.

1)United State's stock market crash of 1929. 2)Big drop in the world's economy. 3)Overproduction of goods from World War I. 4)Decrease in the need for...

a rise in bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, racketeering

On November 18, 1883, America's railroads began using a standard time system involving four time zones, Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific.

It's an amount of money-usually one or two dollars- that a citizen had to pay before he or she could vote.

protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or sociallyThe annexation of Hawaii in 1898British East...