Immigration
This immigration processing station is located in NYC served as a point of entry for immigrants from Europe. It was welcoming and beautiful, with immigrants usually staying for only a few hours.
What is Ellis Island?
These low-rise apartment buildings, known for cramped spaces and poor living conditions were common in cities in the late 19th century.
What are tenement houses?
This ideology believes that humans develop through competition and natural selection, justifying poor working conditions. It leads to a "survival of the richest" mentality.
What is Social Darwinism?
Who was James Garfield?
Exams meant to limit African-Americans from voting following the passage of the 15th amendment.
What are literacy tests?
This immigration processing station was located in San Francisco was designed like a prison, and immigrants from Asia, particularly many Chinese immigrants, were detained there for extended periods. Some even carved poems on the walls.
What is Angel Island?
A group of immigrants that mostly lived in cities, were from Eastern and Southern Europe, Catholic and Jewish, and commonly didn't speak English.
What were new immigrants?
The use of biblical ideas of charity and justice to improve conditions, focusing on helping the poor and inspiring churches to provide social programs.
What is the Social Gospel?
An informal political group designed to gain and keep power
What is a political machine?
These regulations were any state or local laws that enforced or legalized racial segregation.
What were Jim Crow laws?
The ideology that that people born in America are superior to immigrants, accompanied by extreme dislike of immigrants by those born in America.
What is nativism?
Buildings necessary because of a lack of new land to build on.
What are skyscrapers?
The use of biblical ideas of charity and justice to improve conditions in cities
The poor should be helped according to the ideas in the Bible.
What is the Social Gospel?
This political machine dominated the landscape of NYC and was led by William "Boss" Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
This legislation states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What was the 13th amendment?
This artistic expression was found carved into the walls of the immigration processing station in San Francisco Bay.
What is poetry?
What are sewage systems?
This type of person became rich through ruthless and immoral business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).
What are robber barons?
The assassin that shot President James Garfield because he believed the president owed him a job.
Who was Charles Guiteau?
The African-American leader believed in focusing on economic and vocational goals first, postponing the fight for civil rights.
This piece of legislation suspended certain immigration for ten years and declared specific immigrants ineligible for naturalization.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These charitable buildings in urban neighborhoods, provided recreation, education, and medical and social service programs, primarily for immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
This type of business owner is someone who owns or manages a large, successful business or company and is motivated by improving society at large.
What is a captain of industry?
The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters was finally replaced by the Pendleton Civil Service Act. Jobs were awarded based on competitive exams and not simply who you know.
What was the spoils system?
This African-American leader pushed for immediate full equality, including political and civil rights.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?