Immigration
NYC Island that processed immigrants
Ellis Island
Tall buildings in cities
Skyscrappers
the belief that americans can rise in society and go as far as their talents can take them.
Individualism
Assassinated in 1881
James Garfield
charging $2 to vote at elections
Poll tax
San Francisco Island that processed immigrants
Angel Island
Most populated US City in 1900
New York City
Survival of the fittest
Charles Darwin, Natural Selection, Social Darwinism
Hiring people based off of friendship or relationship
patronage system
laws that enforced discrimination against African Americans in the South.
Jim Crow
Multi-family apartments
Tenaments
Form of public transportation common in 1900
Trolleys
using your fortune to create conditions that would help people
philanthropy
taking a test to compete for jobs such as police, firefighter, corrections officer.
Civil Service
“Separate but Equal”
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
The extreme dislike of immigrants
Nativism
Informal political group designed to gain and keep power
The Political Machine
movement began in the late 1800’s, idealistic reform, including many college educated women, established settlement houses for the poor.
The Settlement House
increased money supply without an increase in goods for sale.
inflation
leader of the new African American activist movement exclaimed “ that voting is necessary to proper manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism.”
W.E.B Du Bois
Law that banned Chinese immigrants from coming to the US for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gaining Money Illegally
Grafts
year James Neismith invented basketball
1891
a tax based on the net income of an individual or business and which taxes different income levels and rates
graduated income tax
the separation of races occurred in public settings and schools.
Segregation