Immigration
This station was the main point of entry from people wanting to immigrate from China and Japan and was located in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
These dwellings sprang up to meet the demand of a growing population and were filled with small, poor ventilated rooms that were rented to new immigrants.
What are tenements?
This act provided jobs for supporters when their candidate won office.
What is patronage?
This person usually wears a top hat and red and white striped trousers and a blue coat and personifies patriotism and the United States.
Who is Uncle Sam?
What is the melting pot?
The goal of this educational movement was to assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture teaching American culture, civic virtues, and English language.
What is the Americanization movement?
These houses were founded by social reformers inspired by the Social gospel movement.
What are Settlement houses?
This name is synonymous with the corruption and greed of political machines and was located in New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
Who is Jane Addams?
This event was where many political machines were able to "influence" voters.
What is an election?
These centers were created to provide assistance, services, and education to immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
This area is where most unskilled immigrants settled upon arriving in America because of the plentiful jobs and mass transit systems.
What are cities?
This legislation reformed the patronage system and forced potential workers to take a test to show they held the necessary qualifications for a position before being hired for a position.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This president was a Republican but was also in favor of reforming the patronage system even though he could not convince Congress to support those reforms.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This belief was shared by many earlier immigrants about new immigrants to the United States.
What is nativism?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This group was most likely to help assist new immigrants just arriving in America with housing, groceries, and a new job in turn for their support in the next election.
Who are political machines?
This merit system allowed qualified individuals the chance to earn their place as a government worker and replaced the spoils system.
What is the civil service?
This president was assassinated by a supported because he was not given a job after supporting the president's election to office.
Who is James A. Garfield?
Anti-immigrant legislation that was inspired by nativist viewpoints about the Japanese.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
This led to Japan limiting unskilled workers from immigrating to the United States in return for the United States revoking segregation practices in San Francisco.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
This concept is saying a project cost more money than it did and keeping the difference.
What is graft?
The belief in this caused the assassination of President Garfield by a supporter who failed to earn a job in government.
What is Civil Service reform?
This person raised tariffs to the highest amount ever in United States history with the McKinley Tariff Act and won office by electoral majority but did not win the popular vote.
Who is Benjamin Harrison?
This term describes the illegal use of influence or corruption that was prevalent among political machines.
What is graft?