Vocabulary
This is a type of music characterized by syncopation in the melody.
What is ragtime?
This is the island where most Asian immigrants were processed through when coming to America.
What is Angel Island?
This person argued that schools should teach students skills for working together to solve problems.
Who is John Dewey?
This famous entertainment marked the beginning of today's film industry, being the first type of movie theaters.
What are nickelodeons?
This structure in New York opened in 1883.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
This is when new people became a part of a larger culture.
What is to assimilate?
In 1907, an agreement was made that limited the number of immigrants from this country.
What is Japan?
This person invented "moving pictures".
This publication became the most influential African American newspaper in the United States.
What is the Chicago Defender?
In 1888 Richmond, Virginia, pioneered the use of this.
What is the trolley car?
A type of residence that is often run-down and crowded.
What is a tenement?
Many immigrants arriving in the United States belonged to this religious group.
What are Catholics?
This American artist painted stormy sea scenes?
Who was Winslow Homer?
This event is a famous pastime for people rooting for the home team or a local star.
What is a spectator sport?
In 1882, this law was passed to limit immigration and was extended twice.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
To leave one's homeland to live somewhere else.
What is it to emigrate?
These were reasons that made people leave their homelands for the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are "push" factors?
This person composed many stirring American marches.
Who is John Philip Sousa?
A type of writing that reporters would use to exaggerate the dramatic or shocking aspects of stories.
What is yellow journalism?
This decision provided funds for land-grant colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
An anti-immigrant.
What is a nativist?
Immigrants viewed the United States as a place of jobs, land, and hope. These reasons for immigrating to the United States became known as this.
What are "pull" factors?
This writer describes the lives of upper-class Easterners.
Who is Edith Wharton?
These are theater performances featuring dancing, singing, comedy, and magic arts.
What are vaudeville shows?
This settlement house was founded by Jane Addams?
What is Hull House?