Farmers
The ACT that was passed to encourage settlement in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
The rise of factories and the needs of growing urban populations created more jobs.
What is a Pull Factor?
Came before 1880 to escape religious and political persecution or to find new economic opportunities. Majority spoke English.
What are Old Immigrants?
Migration of people from the countryside to towns and cities
What is urbanization
Believed that white protestant native-born Americans were superior to others and immigrants.
Remoteness of markets was a challenge faced by farmers until the __________
What are railroads?
Farm machinery meant not as many laborers were needed to grow foods on farms
What are push factors?
1880-1924 these groups came from Southern and Eastern Europe and spoke little to no English. Came to escape religious or pollical persecution and many were poor and uneducated.
What are New Immigrants?
Required the federal government to purchase a certain amount of silver each month until the laws repeal in 1893.
What is Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Most immigrants lived in ethnic neighborhoods in cities with others who spoke the same language and practiced the same traditions
What are Ethnic Ghettos?
Main reason for drop in crop prices
What is overproduction?
an organization usually controlled by a strong leader or boss that gets citizens to vote for its candidates
What is a political machine?
The place where European immigrants arrived _____________. The place where Asian immigrants arrived ___________.
What is Ellis Island, What is Angel Island
Assimilated into mainstream American society by learning its values and behaviors
Americanization
Overcrowding and slums, Lack of garbage collection services and proper sewage, and vast differences in wealth which increased tensions
What is Problem of Cities?
Agricultural surplus, Scarcity of Money, Profits of the Middlemen, High Shipping Costs, Farm Debt and Natural Disasters
What is the problems farmers faced?
Cities grew so rapidly that municipal authorities could not deal adequately with all their needs which led to
What is overcrowding and slums?
Americans did not like the new immigrants and immigrants from Asia because they looked different and spoke different. This would cause __________
What is prejudice?
Ban on immigration of Chinese skilled and unskilled laborers to the U.S for a period of ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Role of schools for immigrants coming to America
First step toward federal regulation of unfair business practices. Prohibited giving different rates to different customers for hauling freight the same distance.
What is Interstate Commerce Act
Bosses and their machines were mostly corrupt and selfish but did help other groups when the government was not resolving social problems.
What are immigrants and poor residents
Immigration of Japanese immigrants cut off to the United States
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
Coming to live in a foreign country with the intention of staying
Immigration
Political machines profited from kickbacks on public contracts
What is Corruption?