Changes in Life
Two inventions that made new housing in modern city life possible
Steel and elevators
Eastern Immigrants came to this processing center
Ellis Island
This man helped to found the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
A place ordinary people could go for fun in their new found free time
A City Park
A neighborhood that was overcrowded, and dangerous is called a
slum
the process by which people from other cultures who live in the United States gradually adopt American ways is called
Assimilation
Believed in fighting for equal rights for African Americans but not for ending segregation
Booker T Washington
Another word for free-time-activities
Leisure
Tammany Hall
These organizations often helped immigrants in exchange for favors and votes
Political Machines
Led a newspaper campaign against Lynching
Ida B Wells
One of the first amusement parks ever created in New York
Coney Island
This invention changed where people were able to live and work
streetcar
The Chinese Exclusion act banned Chinese Immigration for this many years
Ten Years
These were laws some Southern states passed in the late 1800s to enforce racial segregation in public places?
What is Jim Crow?
A blend of African American music and European musical forms
Rag-Time
This lady founded Chicago's Hull House
Jane Adams
The "New Immigrants" came from this part of Europe
Southern and Eastern
This legal case that went to the Supreme Court eventually ruled in favor of segregation
Plessy vs Ferguson
Owner of the New York World
Joseph Pulitzer