Immigration
Neighborhoods within a city that offer cultural food, clothing, newspapers with people of similar Ethnic backgrounds
What is Ethnic Ghettos
The process that made help the steel industry grow and made easier the building of skyscrapers
What is the Bessemer Steel Process
This act regulated trade and money between states. It helped Farmers by making railroads set a price based on distance.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
These groups represented workers and their needs. They helped to get safer working conditions, end child labor, and establish better pay and hours.
What are Labor Unions
What is the social gospel
The name for rundown, low-cost apartment buildings that housed mainly poor immigrants in urban area.
What is tenements
Completed in 1869, this form of transportation connected the East Coast to the West Coast and helped fulfill Manifest Destiny
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
This political movement attracted Farmers because it represented ordinary people and their fight against railroad companies
What is Populism
This act said that all government employees must qualify for jobs by taking a Civil Service Exam
What is the Civil Service Act
This is the Survival of the richest (fittest)
What is Social Darwinism
Favoring native-born citizens over immigrants, discrimination against immigrants
What is nativism
This invention extended the workday and allowed for companies to continue production around the clock
What is the light bulb
What is the Homestead Act
This meant little or no government intervention in how business run
What is free enterprise
To give money or charity to those in need
What is Philanthropy
List three pull factors that brought immigrants to America
What is land, jobs, money, personal freedoms, and religious freedoms
These centers were created to help the urban poor, primarily immigrants, by giving them a place to learn English, attend classes, and learn basic skills
What is settlement houses
This movement of people out of the south after the Civil War was primarily made up of former slaves looking for land and job opportunities
When elected official give jobs to supporters and friends, even if they're not qualified
What is the spoils system
The growth of cities, or the movement of people from rural to urban area
What is Urbanization
This act prevented Chinese Immigrants from coming to America beginning in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This invention was created to help people build up an immunity to infectious diseases
What are vaccines
The act that forced Native Americans to conform to the "white way" by cutting their hair, making them attend boarding schools, and stripping them of their cultural identity.
What is the Dawes Act
An unofficial city organization who gave favors to get political support
What is a political machine
The name for the location that was the birthplace of modern music and allowed music to spread nationally
What is Tin Pan Alley