What is the term for the reasons people are drawn to an area (better life, safer, more freedoms, land, gold)?
100
slum
What is the term for the poorest sections of cities?
100
Ellis Island
What is the name of the processing center outside of New York, where millions of immigrants arrived?
100
Statue of Liberty
What is the name of Frederick Bartholdi's gift from France to the American people?
100
"I was here first!"
What is the likely statement that might come from a nativist?
200
assimilation
What is the term for the process of "fitting in" or "blending in" to a new society?
200
tenements
What is name for the poorly built, dangerous apartments that housed millions of people in cities?
200
Hull House
What is the name of the organization started by Jane Addams in order to help newly arrived immigrants to Chicago assimilate to American society?
200
ragtime
What is the name of the style of music created largely by Scott Joplin?
200
melting pot
What is the term used by many to describe the fact that American society is made up of many different people from many different nations, religions, and cultures?
300
New Immigrant
What is the term for the second big wave of immigration to the USA (included people that were Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Jewish, or from Southern and Eastern Europe)?
300
city parks
What is the name of the areas, such as those created by Frederick Olmstead, where city residents could escape the crowded tenements?
300
Old Immigrant
What is the name of the group of immigrants who assimilated quickly and relatively easier, because they shared many cultural traits with those already in the USA?
300
Emma Lazarus
What is the name of the 15 yr. old who penned the poem "The New Colossus", which is on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
300
vaudeville
What is the style of entertainment that consisted of an evening of many different types of acts that travelled from town to town?
400
Angel Island
What is the place where many immigrants from Asian nations were processed as immigrants (outside of San Francisco)?
400
suburban
What is the term for those areas just outside the urban centers?
400
Chinese
What is the ethnic group who was targeted by many nativist groups on the West coast to keep them out, ten years at a time?
400
Pulitzer
What is the name of the newspaper pubisher from Poland who, along with William Randolph Hearst, controlled the media of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
400
rural
What is the name of the area that was farthest from the city, offered the most land, and probably was populated by farmers and owners of factories?
500
xenophobia
What is the fear of foreigners better known as?
500
political machine
What is the name for governments that controlled city elections by bribing voters (such as Tammany Hall)?
500
Know Nothing
What was the nickname of the American Party, a political party that would not answer questions surrounding their nativist beliefs?
500
Mother of Exiles
What is the name of the Statue of Liberty, according to Emma Lazarus?
500
"flash" photography
What invention allowed photographers, like Jacob Riis, to take pictures of the people of New York in "How the Other Half Lives"?