The law that banned immigration (from an Asian country) for 10 years.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
The place of origin for new immigrants.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
100
Most immigrants had to travel in this area when sailing to America.
What is steerage?
100
These organizations used corrupt methods to reach out to immigrants and control local government.
What is political machine?
100
Voters in the South were required to pay THIS before they were allowed to vote.
What is poll tax?
200
A place where volunteers provided a variety of services to people in need.
What is a settlement house?
200
Two reasons new immigrants came to the United States.
What is poverty and little economic opportunity?
200
This class made their fortunes in industry and business.
What is the wealthy class?
200
First National Farmers' Organization
What is the National Grange?
200
This clause stated that a man could vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote.
What is a grandfather clause?
300
A coalition of farmers, labor leaders, and reformers that formed a new political party.
What is the populist party?
300
The U.S. government opened this immigration station in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
300
This enabled people to live away from the city center.
What is mass transportation systems?
300
This is the home of the most notorious political machine which was lead by Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
300
In this court case, the practice of segregation was upheld.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
From this negotiation Japan agreed to prevent unskilled workers from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
400
These people saw new immigrants as a threat to society and the economy.
What is the nativist response?
400
This is a belief that religious faith should be expressed through good works.
What is the Social Gospel?
400
The court case that ruled the federal government had the power to regulate railroad traffic moving across state boundaries.
What is Wabash vs Illinois?
400
Strict rules of behavior that governed social and business interactions in the South.
What is racial etiquette?
500
The NAACP
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
500
After 1910 new comers arriving on the west coast were processed at this immigration station in San Francisco.
What is Angel Island?
500
This man invented the safety elevator.
What is Elisha Otis?
500
A scandal involving the building of the transcontinental railroad in which American taxpayers paid much more than what it actually cost to build the railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier?
500
In this system, Mexican immigrants were tied to their jobs until they had enough funds to pay off their employer.