Vocabulary
Hostility toward immigrants by native-born people.
What is nativism?
The "Old Immigrants" came from this part of Europe.
What is Northern and Western Europe?
Various forms of this was developed to address congestion on city streets.
What is mass transit? (cable cars, trolley cars, subways)
From "rags to riches" is an example of this:
What is individualism?
On the field or in the classroom, this makes everyone better.
What is competition? (Also practice & encouragement!)
Acquiring money in dishonest ways, such as bribing a politician.
What is graft?
The "New Immigrants" came from this part of Europe.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
These multifamily apartments were often dark and overcrowded.
What are tenements?
"Survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
The number of Sumo tournaments in a year?
What is six?
What is philanthropy?
The cheapest accommodation on a steamship.
What is steerage?
This group of wealthy socialites became America's first urban reformers.
Who were white women?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Attitude + __________ = Outcome!
What is effort?
These laws enforced discrimination through segregation.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
This law barred Chinese immigrants living in the U.S. from becoming citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This informal group developed because city problems grew faster than their governments could handle.
What were political machines?
The Social Gospel movement inspired the creation of the YMCA; which stands for this:
What is the Young Men's Christian Association?
The number of days in a Sumo Tournament?
What is fifteen?
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was allowed.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This group believed immigrants undermined American workers.
Who were the labor unions?
This corrupt New York City Democratic political machine was the most infamous.
What is Tammany Hall?
This African American composer became known as the King of Ragtime.
Who is Scott Joplin?
Albert Einstein was a genius. His brother Frank was this?
What is a monster? (Frankenstein!)