Key Terms 1
What is individualism?
The belief that a person can become successful through effort no matter their background.
What is nativism?
Hostility towards immigrants by native-born people.
What race was banned from entering America until 1943?
Chinese
What religion grew in America during the Gilded Age?
Catholicism
What caused Chinese immigration to the US during the Gilded Age?
The California Gold Rush and/or Taiping Rebellion
the process of acquiring or causing a person to acquire American traits and characteristics
Americanization
What is a party boss?
A person in control of a political machine.
Where did the lower cost city dwellers live?
multi-family apartment buildings (tenements)
Where did Upper Class city dwellers live?
In the fashionable areas of town, creating high-cost areas
Where did the middle class live?
In the suburbs, on the fringes of the cities.
hostility toward immigrants by native-born people
nativism
one who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of their original nationality
immigrant
Most immigrants from Europe entered the U.S. through this island near New York City
Ellis Island
Plunkitt and Tweed were notorious bosses of this kind of organization
A political machine
What form of art and literature was popular during the Gilded Age?
Realism
an organization linked to a political party that often controls local governments in an attempt to gain and keep power
Political Machine
the belief that no matter what a person’s background, they can still become successful through effort
individualism
What country did most immigrants to America in the late 19th century immigrate from?
Eastern and Southern Europe
Who came up with the Gospel of Wealth?
Andrew Carnegie
These organizations were established during the Gilded Age to help the poor
YMCA, Salvation Army, Settlement Houses
a person in control of a political machine
party boss
a theory asserting humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strong surviving
Social Darwinism
What changed in the cities in the Gilded Age as a result of urbanization?
They built skyscrapers and public transportation.
Who came up with Social Darwinism?
Herbert Spencer
What was Bellamy’s novel Looking Backward about?
Socialist society where food, clothing, and water were provided.