Early Immigrants/Vocab
By 1900, this country had the most amount of immigrants in the United States
What is Germany?
This place was where immigrants were processed in New York
What is Ellis Island?
This was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city
What is political machine?
This city was the first to electrify its urban transit system
What is Richmond, Virginia?
The profits of a project going back to the political machines
What is a kickback?
This is overt favoritism towards Native-born Americans
What is nativism?
This place is where immigrants were processed in San Francisco
This man is known as the most crooked man in Gilded Age politics
Who is Boss Tweed?
This woman founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889
Who is Jane Addams?
The practice of giving government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected
What is patronage?
A mixture of people of different cultures and race who blend together
What is melting pot?
This piece of legislation banned entry to almost all people from China
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This was the name for New York City's Democratic political machine
What is Tammany Hall?
The organization of people into social classes by wealth
What is social stratification?
Danish immigrant who documented life as an immigrant in the United States, specifically the poor living conditions
Who is Jacob Riis?
A movement designed to assimilate people of wide ranging cultures into the dominant culture
What is the Americanization movement?
This was an understanding between Japan and the United States that did not allow people from Japan to emigrate to the United States
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
This legislation authorized a bipartisan civil service commission to attack corruption in American politics
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This was a movement that preached that salvation is achieved through service to the poor
What is the social gospel movement?
The political cartoonist who was critical of Boss Tweed in his cartoons
Who is Thomas Nast?
Multifamily urban dwellings that were very unsanitary
What is a tenement?
Main reason many Americans feared Chinese immigration
What is taking job from them? (working for lower pay)
This was the system that replaced patronage and gave people civil service jobs based on their qualifications
What is the merit system?
Created by reformers, these were community centers that provided assistance to people in the area, specifically immigrants
What is Settlement Houses?
This woman created the first settlement house for African-Americans
Who is Janie Porter Barrett?