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What was the Immigration Station on the East Coast?
Ellis Island
What is the Immigration Station on the West Coast?
Angel Island
Which Immigration Station had an easier admission process and why
Ellis Island because it was mainly European immigrants being admitted.
What is a Graft?
illegal use of political power for personal gain
What was the purpose of Settlement Houses?
Community homes in the slums to help immigrants who couldn't afford homes.
Explain Tammany Hall issue
The political machine in New York that took about $50 million away by charging extra
Why did President Garfield get assassinated?
He gave patronage jobs to reformers making Charles Guiteau angry for not receiving a job. He shot him in the chest twice.
Overpopulation in Europe, religious struggles, and the want of new land and opportunity is called?
Immigration
What is the rapid growth of major cities known as?
Urbanization
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act prevent?
people immigrating to the U.S
What main things did Americanization do?
1. helped immigrants learn languages and jobs
2. taught immigrants to farm
3. found immigrants jobs in urban cities
Which term described the mixture of cultures in the U.S?
Melting Pot
The loss of an individual culture and acceptance of the main culture?
assimilation
What restricted Japanese immigrants from coming to the United States?
Gentlemen's Agreement
What are some examples of a public service job?
1. Firefighter
2. Mail carrier
3. Police
What is patronage?
Government jobs are given to those who help a candidate gets elected
What is a Political Machine?
An organized group that controls city political parties. (Tammany Hall)
What are tenements and how were the conditions?
Multi-family urban dwellings that are crowded and very dirty.
Which president changed his views of civil service reform once he became president?
James A. Garfield
Who was William (Boss) Tweed?
He was a corrupt part boss of a political machine specifically Tammany Hall.
If you failed medical inspection at Ellis Island, what happened to you?
quarantined until you were healthy
How did mass transportation change the size of the big cities?
Allowed workers the ability to live away from where they worked.
Who was the founder of the Hull House? (Settlement house found in Chicago)
Jane Adams
What are some main reasons immigrants settled in urban areas?
1. Cheap housing
2. similar cultures
3. factory jobs
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States. True or False?
True