Immigration
Law that offered up to 160 acres of Western land to those willing to live on and cultivate
Homestead Act of 1862
Through the Revolution, the US moved from a ____________ society to a __________ one.
Agrarian, industrial
The science of "better breeding"
Eugenics
WASP is an abbreviation for
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
This reformer was fined $100 for trying to cast a vote in the 1872 election
Susan B. Anthony
Immigration hub that processed primarily European immigrants
Ellis Island
This helped make steel cheaper and mass produceable
Bessemer Process
WCTU stood for
Women's Christian Temperance Union
This new city infrastructure made cities no longer largely "walking cities"
Streetcar systems
Belief in applying theories of evolution towards humans
Social Darwinism
Stereotype which depicted Asian immigrants as a threat to the "Western world"
Yellow Peril
This book uncovered the grimy conditions of urban life
How The Other Half Lives
Seneca Falls Convention
These 2 materials produced the modern skyscraper
Glass and steel
During the Victorian era, children were "___________"
Seen and not heard
3 pull factors for immigrants moving to the US
industry, cities, jobs, railroads, homestead act...
Immigrants were scapegoated for these occurrences in new urban cities
Concentration/outbreaks of disease
Progressives rejected _______ in favor of __________
Individualism, collectivism
This 1890s anti-Catholic organization worked to limit or end immigration.
American Protective Association
2 reasons why birth rates fell between 1800 and 1939
New career opportunities, more attention to smaller number of children
Nativism is the intersection of __________ and ____________
Nationalism, xenophobia
Federal Act that allowed the government to breakup companies that were too large
Sherman Antitrust Act
Amendment which allowed voters to vote directly for their senator.
17th Amendment
What was "The House That Tweed Built"?
The New York County Courthouse
Political machines traded _____ for ______
services/favors , votes