Immigration
Urbanization
Social Tension
Politics & Economic
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100

Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.

What is a 2nd Wave Immigration

100
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;
What are tenements?
100
The right to vote..
What is suffrage?
100
Use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
What is the gold standard?
100

He argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality.

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

200

Point of entry into the U.S. for European Immigrants in NYC. 

What is the Ellis Island?

200
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

Illegal payment of government officials

What are bribes?

200

Group of mostly common people who tried to help fix urban problems

What are progressives

300

Places which helped newcomers learn English and adapt to society 

What are Settlement Houses/Hull House

300

an industrialist who generally helped others

What is Captain of Industry

300
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
300

These were created by the Federal Government to help protect natural landscapes

What are the National Parks?

300

Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.

What is the Gilded Age?

400

This act prohibited immigration by laborers from a specific country

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

400

Air and water were affected negatively by this process

What is pollution?

400
Argued that African Americans needed to accommodate themselves to segregation.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms
Who is the Populist Party?
400

established Hull House ( a settlement house in Chicago in 1889.

Who is Jane Addams?

500

A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?

What is nativism/jingoism/or xenophobia

500
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
500
Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
500

Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s

What are Political machines?

500

Taking away the right to vote.

What is disenfranchise?

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