The law that banned immigration (from an Asian country) for 10 years.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
The place of origin for new immigrants.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
100
This group of immigrants was reviled for being a bunch of drunk papists. They were often portrayed as apish.
What is the Irish?
100
These organizations used corrupt methods to reach out to immigrants and control local government.
What is political machine?
100
Money that has no intrinsic value.
What is fiat money?
200
A place where volunteers provided a variety of services to people in need.
What is a settlement house?
200
Two reasons new immigrants came to the United States.
What is poverty and little economic opportunity?
200
Most newly arrived immigrants at the turn of the century came from here.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
200
First National Farmers' Organization
What is the National Grange?
200
He gave the "Cross of Gold" speech while campaigning in 1896 for the presidency.
Who is William Jennings Bryant?
300
A coalition of farmers, labor leaders, and reformers that formed a new political party.
What is the populist party?
300
The U.S. government opened this immigration station in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
300
A homogeneous urban area where the same ethnicities live and a common language is spoken.
A ghetto
300
This is the home of the most notorious political machine which was lead by Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
300
Farmers in the late 19th century thought this would improve the economy.
What is coining silver?
400
From this negotiation Japan agreed to prevent unskilled workers from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
400
These people saw new immigrants as a threat to society and the economy.
What is the nativist response?
400
This is a belief that religious faith should be expressed through good works.
What is the Social Gospel?
400
The court case that ruled the federal government had the power to regulate railroad traffic moving across state boundaries.
What is Wabash vs Illinois?
400
A general decrease in the average cost of goods and services.
What is deflation?
500
The NAACP
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
500
After 1910 new comers arriving on the west coast were processed at this immigration station in San Francisco.
What is Angel Island?
500
Cheap housing common in immigrant neighborhoods.
What is tenements?
500
A scandal involving the building of the transcontinental railroad in which American taxpayers paid much more than what it actually cost to build the railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier?
500
This law was a small success for silverites because it allowed for the limited coining of silver.