Immigrants that came to the United States between 1891-1920
What are new immigrants?
100
The poorest accommodations on a ship - where most early immigrants to the US traveled.
What is steerage?
100
Description of immigrant communities - pockets of immigrant communities within cities.
What is helped with transition - shared the same language, religion, food, could help each other financially - find jobs, pay for things like sickness and death.
100
Growth of cities
What is urbanization?
100
Problems caused by the overcrowding of cities (need 3).
What is pollution, sanitation issues, crimes, gangs, poor living conditions, disease?
200
Immigrants that came to the United States between 1800-1890.
What are old immigrants?
200
The process going through Ellis Island
What is medical examinations, backgrounds checks and other questioning - maize of lines taking 3-5 hours?
200
Aid organizations to help immigrants with jobs, school, training, sickness, death, etc,
What are benevolent societies?
200
Neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities, made possible by mass transit and where many middle class city dwellers moved
What are suburbs?
200
Poorly constructed apartment buildings, near factories, stockyards and ports
What are tenements?
300
Where 70% of immigrants came from between 1891-1920.
Where is eastern and southern Europe?
300
A melting pot
What is a a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together?
300
Most immigrant jobs were like this
What is dirty, low-paying, long hours, hard labor?
300
Public transportion
What is mass transit?
300
A movement to intentionally improve cities, design them to include parks and attractive boulevards.
What is the City Beautiful Movement?
400
Where most immigrants came from between 1800-1890.
Where is northern and eastern Europe?
400
Americans who opposed immigrants?
What is nativism?
400
Prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
What forms of transportation made it possible for middle class city dwellers to move to the outskirts of cities?
What are the electric trolley, trains, automobiles?
400
Developed the mechanized elevator.
Who was Elisha Otis?
500
Why most immigrants migrated to the United States (need at least 2).
What is economic opportunity and to escape religious and political persecution?
500
Why nativists opposed immigrants (need at least 3)
What is willing to work for lower pay, took jobs, dirty, blamed for poverty, blamed for social problems, too different to fit into American culture?
500
Created by Bostonians who proposed a literacy test for all immigrants, passed by Congress but vetoed by Cleveland.
Who was the Immigration Restriction League?
500
Two things that allowed cities to grow upwards.
What are elevators and steel?
500
Pastimes and leisure activities for urban city dwellers (need 3 different activities, a variety of types)
What was spectator sports, bicycling, tennis, croquet, amusement parks, theater - vaudeville, music - ragtime, reading