Favoritism to Native born Americans with English ancestry.
100
What movement led to mandatory education?
Americanization movement.
100
What is segregation?
The public seperation of the races.
100
Who is the Boss of Tammany Hall?
Boss Tweed.
200
Asian immigrants arrived here.
What is Angel Island?
200
What was the goal of the Americanization Movement?
To assimilate immigrants by teaching them English and about Democracy.
200
Which group was the Americanization movement trying to assimilate?
Immigrants
200
What court case led to the ruling that "seperate but equal" is constiutational legal?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
200
Why did Boss Tweed go to jail?
He embezzeled 10 million dollars.
300
The increase in population of the cities led to what urban problems?
Poor sanitation
Garbage in the streets
Open Sewage
300
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act and why was it passed?
Decreases immigrants from China.
Passed because the Chinese would work for low wages and were "stealing" American Jobs.
300
Who was excluded from recieving free public education?
African-Americans
300
This was often done by mobs who suspected an African American of committing a crime.
Lyncing
300
What is Graft?
Using you political influence for personal gain.
400
Many immigrant families living in these single family homes called ____________.
tenements
400
How was the Americanization Movement implemented?
Mandatory education.
400
Where did the Wright brother's first flight take place?
Kitty-Hawk North Carolina
400
This person believed that in order to achieve racial equality, blacks needed to prove their economic worth and slowly become a part of society.
Booker T. Washington
400
What is patronage?
Giving government positions to your supporters or friends.
500
List 2 of the 3 things that immigrants had to prove when they arrived in the United States.
Medical Inspection
Legal Inspection
Questioning
or
Show they had no illness
Show they had $25 dollars
Show they had no felonies
500
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement? Explain what both countries promised to do.
Japan would limit the number of unskilled laborers who immigrated to America.
America would stop segreagating Japanese students from white students in California.
500
Give 2 reasons why Central Park devloped.
To provide people:
relief from the city
make people happier
give people open spaces
500
What ammendement did Homer Plessy argue was being violated by "Seperate but equal"?
14th
500
What act led to civil service reform by forcing people to take a Civil Service Exam?