Urbanization
This was the main immigration processing station on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island.
What are Skyscrapers?
This political machine leader controlled New York’s Tammany Hall and was known for corruption.
Who is Boss Tweed?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after the Civil War.
What are Jim Crow Laws
Settlement houses were founded primarily by these people to help immigrants adjust to urban life.
Who are (social) reformers?
This legislation practically stopped Asian immigration from 1883 to 1914.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act.
This novel by Upton Sinclair exposed the harsh working conditions in meatpacking plants, leading to new food safety laws.
What is The Jungle?
This is another name for a corrupt political organization that controlled city politics through patronage.
What is a political machine?
The Supreme Court case that upheld segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy V Ferguson
Name one major problem of urbanization depicted in political cartoons of the late 1800s.
What is sanitation, housing, fire, crime, transportation, or water
This is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to cities during industrialization.
What is urbanization?
This group was often hired to work in the meat packing facilities to work the hardest and most dangerous jobs
What are children?
This practice, common in political machines, involved appointing friends and supporters to government positions.
What is patronage?
Southern states used this clause to prevent African Americans from voting while allowing white citizens to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This act was passed as a direct result of public outrage over the meatpacking industry’s conditions described in The Jungle.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Between 1900 and 1910 (Second Wave), immigrants from these parts of Europe increased the fastest.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
What is a melting pot?
What is a mix of cultures living in one region?
Political machines like Tammany Hall gained power by offering these in exchange for votes.
What are jobs and favors?
What is Natavism
What is the belief that the Unites States is stronger without immigrants
Who is Jane Adams?
This technological invention led to the separation of the wealthy and the poor in the cities.
Mass transit, and electric transit.
Nativist believed that immigration would hurt Americans by...
What is Graft?
What is exchanging money or votes for political favors?
Plessy VS Ferguson was significant because
What is "Separate But Equal"
the NAACP fought for
African American Civil Rights