People To Know
Reformer who formed Hull House.
Jane Addams
The requirement that children stay in school up to a certain age.
What is Compulsory Education?
Group that wanted to preserve the United States for native-born American citizens.
What are Nativists?
reading, 'ritin, 'rithmetic.
What is "The three r's"?
People most effected by the law that denied immigrants that couldn't read their own language.
Who were poor immigrants?
Hungarian Immigrant who created first modern mass-circulation newspaper.
Joseph Pulitzer
A writer who tries represent life as it is.
What is a Realist?
Entrance point into the United States in New York
What is Ellis Island?
The Grade most children attended school up to.
What is Tenth Grade?
How most Americans saw workers unions, especially after displays of violence
What is radical/negatively?
Realist who wrote about miners and sailors who risked their lives
Jack London
The sensational reporting style of some newspapers during the late 1800s
What is Yellow Journalism?
Entrance point into the United States for Asian immigrants
What is Angel Island?
The goal of making a better education system.
What is an educated workforce?
What is an anarchist?
Realist who wrote captured the speech patterns of real southerners who worked and lived along the Mississippi
Mark Twain
The process of becoming part of another culture.
What is Assimilation?
First law to limit immigration based on race.
What was The Chinese Exclusion Act?
Group that built grade schools for both black and white students
What is the Freedman Bureau?
Most popular professional sport in the United States in the 1800s
What is baseball?
Sweet but tough slum boy who became the first popular American comic strip character.
The Yellow Kid
The large compartments of ships that usually held cattle, that immigrants traveled in.
What is Steerage?
Most immigrants in the late 1800s came from where?
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
Timing of typical elementary school day.
What is 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM?
Famous American novel set before the civil war about an escaped enslaved man and uneducated boy rafting down the Mississippi River.
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?