Immigration
Anti-Immigration
Change in American Cities
Help for Immigrants
Political Corruption
100
The immigration station in New York harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
100
This is the number one reason many were against immigrants.
What is a threat to society (crime, proverty, violence, taking jobs)?
100
This allowed buildings to be taller than ever before.
What is the safety elevator?
100
This is a place where volunteers provided a variety of services to people in need.
What is a settlement house?
100
The name given to an informal group of professional politicians who controlled local government.
What is a political machine?
200
Immigrants had to endure this as soon as arriving to Ellis Island.
What is a physical examination?
200
Passed by Congress in 1882, this banned Chinese immigration for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
He invented the safety elevator.
Who is Elisha Otis?
200
She founded the Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This was the most notorious polticial machine in New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
300
This is the immigration station in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
300
Negotiated with Japan by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, this prevented unskilled workers from immigrating to the U.S.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
300
Before Industrialization, most all buildings were this many stories or less.
What is 4 stories?
300
She founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
Who is Lillian Wald?
300
He became the powerful head of Tammany Hall and used his position to rake in riches for himself and his friends.
Who is William Marcy Tweed?
400
Most immigrants traveled in this, the cheapest way to travel.
What is steerage?
400
This is what many nativists called for immigrants to pass.
What is a literacy test?
400
As cities grew, some people began to fear that urban areas would no longer have any of this.
What are green spaces?
400
These are two things settlement houses provided for immigrants.
What is taught and provided social activities?
400
This is the nickname given to Boss Tweed's circle of friends who aided and made a profit in his corruption.
What is Tweed Ring?
500
These immigrants were detained at Angel Island and faced prisonlike conditions.
Who are the Chinese?
500
He was an Irish immigrant who led the Workingmen's Party to oppose Chinese immigration.
Who is Denis Kearney?
500
He was a landscape architect who designed city parks.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
500
Workers in the settlement houses believed in this idea that religious faith should be expressed through good works.
What is Social Gospel?
500
He was a political cartoonist who attacked Tweed's corruption in Harper's Weekly magazine.
Who is Thomas Nast?
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