Vocabulary
What is a carpetbagger?
Traveler who arrives in new region, attempts to profit from control over new surroundings.
How many immigrants came to the U.S. between 1880 and 1920?
A. 2 million
B. 12 million
C. 22 million
B. 12 million
What were the tenements in cities?
small apartments in run-down urban areas
What is sharecropping?
African American families rent small areas of land, and give a portion of their crop to the landowner.
What is Reconstruction?
The era following the Civil War to reunite the Southern States and free people in the U.S.
This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education.
Freedman's Bureau
This is where the steerage was located on an immigrant steamship.
Lower decks
How many sisters does Ariel have?
6
What is a scalawag?
non-slaveholding small farmer, merchants, artisans who had remained loyal to the Union.
Where did the majority of immigrants come from?
Europe and Asia
What are three problems were faced by people who lived in tenements?
The apartments were cramped, poorly lit, not properly ventilated, and usually lacked indoor plumbing.
How did sharecropping make the lives of African Americans difficult?
Many went into debt or were forced into poverty or the threat of violence.
What are two ways the South tried to stop African Americans from voting?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.
This is what doctors often performed on immigrants because of sicknesses and diseases before they went onto boats to got to Ellis Island.
Disinfestations and vaccinations, medical exams
What food is Tiana famous for in The Princess and The Frog?
Beignets
What is nativism?
political and social movement that prioritizes the interests of native-born inhabitants over those of immigrants
List four reasons immigrants came to the United States.
How did the expansion of business and industry affect the growth of cities?
Growing industries created a need for labor, which caused people to move to the cities.
How did the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) impact the South?
Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans.
How did the Black Coeds impact African Americans?
Limited the freedom of African Americans.
What are the names of the laws that states and local governments introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
What was the main cause of the attitude of Nativism towards immigrants?
Immigrants created competition for jobs in crowded cities
Where does Winnie the Pooh live?
The Hundred Acre Wood
What is urbanization?
The movement of people from rural to urban areas.
What was the purpose of Ellis Island?
Ellis Island was a government center that registered new immigrants arriving in America.
How did mechanization affect the growth of cities?
Mechanization limited the amount of labor needed on farms, which caused people to leave rural areas and travel to urban areas for work.
What legislation signed by President Lincoln motivated sharecroppers to move west?
The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
A separation by race or religion is called
segregation
The amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
13th amendment
What did immigrants see as they got closer to arriving at Ellis Island?
What is the name of the toy store in Toy Story 2?
Al's Toy Barn
What was a political machine?
Powerful organizations that controlled city government through bribes and corruption.
What is the name of the legislation that provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What was the name of the settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889 that helped immigrant families adjust to life in the U.S?
The Hull House
What in the Compromise of 1877 impacted the South?
Hayes was named President and the end of the military occupation of the South.
What did the 14th Amendment do for African Americans?
Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws..”
Where is the name of the location on the West Coast where immigrants were processed?
Angel Island
This caused many people to flee from Ireland.
Irish Potato Famine
What is the slogan for Monsters, Inc.?
We scare because we care