Cities Grow and Change
The New Immigrants
Segregation & Discrimination
Society & Mass Culture
Vocab
100
What is the growth of cities called?
What is: Urbanization
100
This was the first stop for most immigrants from Europe?
What is: Ellis Island
100
What is the name of the law that enforced the segregation of white and black people in public places?
What is: Jim Crow
100
These stores sell many types of products?
What is: Department Stores
100
Many people lived in run-down, overcrowded apartments called this?
What is: Tenements
200
This invention moved people faster, longer distances, and allowed cities to expand?
What is: Streetcars
200
This was the first stop for most immigrants arriving from Asia?
What is: Angel Island
200
What do they call the different treatment on the basis of race called?
What is: Racial Discrimination
200
What is it called when you have free time?
What is: Leisure
200
The U.S. is described as this, a place where cultures blend?
What is: Melting Pot
300
This was a movement led by Protestant ministers to improve the lives of the urban poor?
What is: Social Gospel
300
This immigrant group mostly settled in the West and worked as railroaders?
What is: Chinese
300
What is the name of the teacher who starts an institute for African Americans?
What is: Booker T. Washington
300
These give descriptions, pictures of products and you can order them by mail?
What is: Mail-order-catalogs
300
This is the separation of white and black people in public places?
What is: Segregation
400
What is the name of the person who opened one of the most famous settlement houses in Chicago?
What is: Jane Addams
400
What is the name of the Act that banned Chinese immigration for 10 years?
What is: Chinese Exclusion Act
400
What is the name of the man who encourages African Americans to reject segregation and starts NAACP?
What is: W.E.B. Du Bois
400
This is a common culture experienced by a large number of people?
What is: Mass Culture
400
These types of songs blend African American songs, European musical forms?
What is: Ragtime
500
What is the name of the famous NYC political machine, was very corrupt?
What is: Tammany Hall
500
How did immigrants try to assimilate into American society?
What is: Learn English or study to become American citizens
500
What is the name of the Supreme Court case that ruled, "separate but equal" facilities do not violate the 14th Amendment?
What is: Plessy v. Ferguson
500
These are very popular shows with mix songs, dance, and comedy?
What is: Vaudeville
500
This is a system of labor, where workers are forced to work to pay off debts?
What is: Peonage
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