Immigration
In order to become a citizen of the United States during the late 1800's, immigrant coming through Ellis Island had to pass which examination?
Physical Examination
Rapid growth of US cities during the 19th century is referred to as?
Urbanization
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city and also offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support is known as?
A political machine
Poll taxes were used to keep which of the following minorities from voting?
African Americans
Southern congressmen created the poll tax to discourage Black Americans from:
Voting
This immigration processing station, located in San Francisco, primarily served Asian immigrants.
Angel Island
Increases in immigration in the larger cities made decent, affordable housing scarce and poorer people crowded into cramped, filthy, substandard rooms and apartments known as
Tenements
Once a political machine put a candidate into office, it could take advantage of the numerous opportunities for the illegal use of political influence for personal gain. This is called...
Grafting
Most former slaves stayed on plantations as ________
Sharecroppers
What is a push factor?
Something that PUSHES someone away from their home region
What was the main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
decrease or limit the number of Chinese immigrants that were allowed into the US
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
This quote, written on the Statue of Liberty, is meant to convey what feeling to those who were entering Ellis Island?
Hope
What style of organization could political machines and the likes of Boss Tweed be compared to?
The Mafia
To reinstate white male voters who may have failed the literacy test or could not pay the poll tax, several Southern states added this clause to their constitutions:
Grandfather Clause
What is a pull factor?
Something that PULLS you towards a new region or country
In 1906, the San Francisco board of education segregated Japanese children by putting them into separate schools. Japan raised an angry protest at the treatment of its emigrants. In order to maintain diplomatic relations with Japan, president Theodore Roosevelt resolved the issue through which agreement?
The Gentlemen's Agreement
"I seen those awful flames from the Greene Street side, sound so loud and the glass coming out with something, and the girls around the windows jumping, all around, it made me think I was - my last moment had come then.....It took very long for [the elevator on the Greene Street side] to come up....I was over at the windows and I seen the doorway open. I didn't know what it was, whether the staircase for the elevator. Suddenly, he had started away. I just got in. If he had closed the door I would never have gotten in that elevator. I was rubbing against the walls going down the shaft. As the elevator was going down slowly in the dark I was rubbing against the walls, I was so far on the end." -Fannie Selmanowitz (factory worker in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory)
What regulation(s) were put in place due to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Better working conditions and improved safety standards
The Pendleton Civil Service Act ensured that government jobs would be given out according to?
Merit
Laws that were passed after Reconstruction by white southerners in order to reassert their dominance through denying Black Americans many of their newly established rights were called?
Jim Crow Laws
This immigration processing station, located in New York, primarily served European immigrants.
Ellis Island
With the dramatic increase of immigrants to the United States at the end of the 1800's, good-doers developed programs to teach immigrants about their voting rights, how to speak English, and cultural norms. These programs are an example of?
Americanization
After the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Southerners moved north in hopes for a better life. They were able to find jobs in the new steel and automobile industries in northern cities like Pittsburgh and Detroit. This movement is called
The Great Migration
Political Machines corrupt...?
Democracy
Which Supreme Court decision made it legal to separate white Americans and African Americans in United States society?
Plessy V. Ferguson
What is a positive effect of urbanization?
-Factory Jobs -Business Expansion -Mass Transit -Public Utilities -Modern Communication