Immigration
City Life
Education
Upper & Middle Class Life
Miscellaneous
100
Along with Southern Europe, this region was the home of most of the people who immigrated to the U.S. between about 1880 and 1920.
What is Eastern Europe?
100
As the middle class grew, many left the cities to move to this type of community.
What is a suburb?
100
In this type of building multiple grades were taught by one teacher.
What is a one-room schoolhouse?
100
This French term was used as an insult toward those whose money was newly made.
What is "nouveau riche"?
100
To put someone else's thoughts into a different form by restructuring the syntax and change the wording is known as this.
What is paraphrasing?
200
Around 75% of immigrants to the U.S. in this period were processed at this location.
What is Ellis Island?
200
Many new immigrants lived in cities such as New York, in this type of housing.
What is tenements?
200
Laws requiring children or teens to attend school are known as these.
What are compulsory education laws?
200
Throwing expensive parties and wearing flashy, expensive clothes and jewelry are examples of this type of behavior.
What is "conspicuous consumption"?
200
To say that a person looks friendly is an example of what kind of observation?
What is "subjective"?
300
After 1917, proof of this skill was required of immigrants.
What is literacy?
300
This transportation-related invention caused many middle-class people to stop living in the cities.
What is the electric tram/trolley?
300
Southern schools were usually single-race, a practice known as this.
What is segregation?
300
The late 1800s are often called this, a reference to its glittering, wealthy surface and ugly inner workings.
What is "The Gilded Age"?
300
This event prompted many immigrants to leave Mexico in the 1910s.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
400
An "Exclusion Act" passed in the 1870s largely stopped immigration from this nation.
What is China?
400
These charitable establishments provided places for poor city-dwellers, especially immigrants, to receive schooling, medical care, etc.
What are settlement houses?
400
A new concept at the time, this type of high school teaches both vocational and college-prep courses.
What is a comprehensive high school?
400
The idea that men must go out into the corrupting world to make a living while women remain in the pure world of the home was known as this
What is "separate spheres"?
400
This type of legal document gives an inventor exclusive rights to his product for a certain period.
What is a patent?
500
This type of political belief was one thing that could get an immigrant sent back home.
What are anarchist beliefs?
500
This type of tenement had air shafts between the buildings.
What is a dumbbell tenement?
500
This is the average amount of education that an American received in about 1900.
What is five years' worth?
500
Many of the famous photographs in Jacob Riis' book "How the Other Half Lives" would have been impossible to take before the invention of this.
What is the camera flash?
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