Movement in art and literature which attempted to portray people realistically instead of idealizing them as romantic artists had done
What is realism
100
New style of literature that stated that some people failed in life simply because they were caught up in circumstances they could not control
What is naturalism
100
Music with syncoparted rhythms which grew out of the music of riverside honky-tonkies
What is ragtime
200
The name of the Asian processing center, located in San Francisco Bay was
What is Angel Island
200
Dark, crowded, multi-family apartments in urban areas
What is tenements
200
Show with a "hodgepodge" of animal acts, acrobats, gymnasts, and dancers
What is vaudeville
200
Establishments set up in neighborhoods to help the poor, mostly immigrants
What is settlement houses
200
Passed by congress to ban Chinese immigrants from entering the United States and denied citizenship to the Chinese who were alread here
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
300
In the early 1860s, chinese immigrants came to the United States to
What is work on the railroads/mine
300
Informal political group designed to gain and keep power, came about partly because cities had grown faster than goverments
What is a political machine
300
One of the most important African American ragtime composers
Who is Scott Joplin
300
To assimilate immigrants into American culture
What is Americanization
300
Reasons for the emotions felt by Chinese immigrants at Angel Island
What is being detained, separated for family, loss of hope
400
by the 1890s more than half of all immigrants in the United States were from
What is eastern and southern Europe
400
Head of a political machine - exchanged votes for jobs, housing, food, head, and police protection
What is a party boss
400
Belief that those who profited from society owed it somehting in return
What is Gospel of wealth
400
Engineer who developed the electric trolley car
Who is Frank Sprague
400
Emotions of detaines
What is sadness, anger, fear
500
Five (5) differences between Asian and European immigrants in the Unites States were
What is Chinese were:
1. Held longer
2. Separated from family/friends
3. Interrogated
4. Processed at Angel Island
5. Treated as criminals
500
the most famous political boss of New York City's Tammany Hall
Who is boss Tweed
500
Coined the term "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain
500
Writer who concerened herself with the upper class - modeled her realistic writing after those of James - won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Age of Innocence"
Who is Edith Wharton
500
Demonizing characters, using negative words/slogans, and using patriotic symbols
What are ways political cartoonist use to make their point