13.1
Many immigrants traveled to the United States by what mode of transportation?
Steamship
Define: urbanization
growth of cities
What allowed sections of cities that were divided by rivers to be joined together?
Bridges
How did progressives attempt to promote moral reform?
Working for prohibition
What company successfully used an assembly line to efficiently produce the Model T?
Ford Motor Company
Most European immigrants arrived at an immigration station located where?
Ellis Island, NY
What was the Americanization movement?
A social campaign in which newcomers to the United States learned about their new country
What carried people from their homes in outlying neighborhoods to downtown stores, offices, and factories?
Electric streetcars
Why does prohibition fail?
supply & demand
Why did factories use child labor for unskilled work?
Because they could do the same work as adults for less money
Most Asian immigrants arrived at an immigration station located where?
Angel Island, CA
This was the name given to community centers located in slum neighborhoods. Workers here provided help and friendship to immigrants and the poor.
Settlement houses
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted led the movement for planned city parks. What city park did he help create?
Central Park in New York
Define: socialism
Public rather than private ownership or control of property
Some states required voters to be able to read. Officials gave each voter a:
Literacy test
What did ethnic neighborhoods provide to new immigrants? (2)
Provided support and a connection
Name given to multifamily urban dwelling/housing often located in cities:
Tenement
Addressing the various problems of city life was a way that progressives attempted to protect:
social welfare
Journalists who wrote stories about corruption and unfair practices in business was called a:
Muckrakers
Some states required voters to pay before they entered the voting booth. What was this called?
Poll tax
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
Banned all but a few Chinese immigrants from 1882 to 1943
What two factors allowed architects to build taller buildings known as skyscrapers?
Invention of elevators
In Illinois, Florence Kelley helped to win the passage of the Illinois Factory Act. What did this act do?
Prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours in Illinois
To make businesses more efficient and profitable, reformers promoted the use of what?
Scientific management
In terms of voting in the South, what was the “grandfather clause”?
Any person could vote if their father or grandfather was qualified to vote before January 1, 1867