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Cities Grow and Change
The New Immigrants
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Segregation and Discrimination
Society and Mass Culture
100
Social Reformer who founded Chicago's Hull House
Who is Jane Adams
100
People who came to US around the 1900's from southern and eastern Europe.
Who are the new immigrants?
100
The process of blending into a society.
What is assimilation?
100
Laws which enforced segregation in the South.
What is Jim Crow laws?
100
Live entertainment that featured a mix of song, dance,and comedy.
What is vaudeville?
200
An organization that influences enough votes to control a local government
What is a political machine?
200
First stop in America for most immigrants from Europe
What is Ellis Island?
200
First stop in America for most immigrants from Asia
What is Angel Island?
200
Organization that promoted greater rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
200
Blend of African-American and European music.
What is Ragtime?
300
This type of housing frequently had no running water and sewage flowed in open gutters causing diseases.
What is tenement housing
300
Law passed in 1882 that banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Ellis Island is located next to this American landmark.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
300
Responsible for more than 2,500 lynchings between 1885 and 1900.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
300
Two newspaper giants that had a huge competition.
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
400
A famous political machine in NYC
What is Tammany Hall
400
Angel Island is located here.
What is San Francisco Bay?
400
50% of immigrants settled in these 4 states.
What are Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Illiois?
400
System of labor that forced people to work until their debt was paid.
What is peonage.
500
Established the Henry Street Settlement House in NYC.
Who is Lillian Wald?
500
Mexican immigrants entered the US through this state.
What is Texas?
500
5 large US cities where immigrants settled in big numbers.
What are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago?
500
Supreme Court decision that allowed the Southern governments to continue to maintain segregated facilities.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
Origin of the term "nickelodeon"
What is the $.05 movie?