Immigration
Vocab
Political Machines
Politics
Influential People
100
Europeans first stop in America, on the East Coast
What is Ellis Island
100
Airless rooms below decks of ships with 2,000 or more people
What is Steerage
100
Took control of New York, Tammany Hall
Who is William Marcy "Boss" Tweed
100
Portrayed politicians through his cartoons
Who is Thomas Nast
100
President who reformed NY's government and regulated big business
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
200
Asians first stop in America, on the West Coast
What is Angel Island
200
The process of becoming part of another culture
What is Assimilation
200
Used immigrants from Ireland, Italy, even African Americans in Kansas City, MO
Who is James Pendergast
200
Used things such as songs to mock each other
What is mudslinging
200
Civil Rights Activist, Editor of The Crisis, Created The NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
300
Promise of freedom and better life
What is the "American Dream"
300
Safety hazard homes many immigrants lived in
What are tenement houses
300
Financed public infrastructure projects
Who is Alexander Shepherd
300
Republicans who believed in traditional machine politics and opposed civil service reform
Who are Stalwarts
300
Women's Rights Activist, swung an axe in bars
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
400
Photographer who brought light to the immigrant lifestyle
Who is Jacob Riis
400
Small space people paid to sleep a night in
What is "Five Cents a Spot"
400
Used the term "Honest Graft", apart of Tammany Hall
Who is George Washington Plunkitt
400
Republicans who believed in the reform of patronage and the "spoils system"
Who are Half-Breeds
400
Paid his workers fair enough that they could afford his inventions
Who is Henry Ford
500
After 1885 many came from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia, Hungary, China
Who are new immigrants
500
Community that helped immigrants settle in
What is benevolent society
500
Known for corruption he brought to San Francisco politics from 1902 to 1907
Who is Abraham Ruef
500
Party formed by the farmers alliance movement and labor leaders
What is the "People's Party" also called the Populist Party
500
Organized strikes, demonstrations, and marches across the country for the "Knights"
Who is Mary Harris Jones
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