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Immigration
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Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
100
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;
What are tenements?
100

the term to describe the right to vote

What is suffrage?

100
the total control of an industry by one company

What is a monopoly?

100

Founder of NAACP to help African American achieve Equality

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

200

american indians forced to adopt U.S. culture

What is Assimilation?

200
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

Political boss from New York, who was corrupt and stole money from the city, helped immigrants settle into the City

Who is Boss Tweed/ William Tweed

200

connected the Country from East to West, helped to populate the West during the Gilded Age

What is transcontinental Railroad/railroads

300

the primary reason why immigrants came to the US

What is jobs/factories

300
the reason why farmers in America migrated to Cities

What are factory jobs

300
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
300

french phrase meaning "hands off" that related to the late 1800s where businesses expected to be able to operate without government regulation

What is Lassize-Faire?

300

Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.

What is the Gilded Age?

400
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400

law which help to settle the west, 160 acres of land for free

What is the homestead act?

400

African American person who advocated for Vocational training/education as means to achieve equality

Who is Booker T. Washington?

400
People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms
Who is the Populist Party?
400

established Hull House ( a settlement house in Chicago in 1889.

Who is Jane Addams?

500

Americans not wanting more immigrants to come to the US

What is nativism?

500

The growth of cities due to the influx of people

What is Urbanization?

500

were an unorganized labor group that were blamed for the Haymarket Square Riot.

What are the Knights of Labor?

500

Well organized corrupt political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s

What are Political machines?

500

an organized group of skilled workers that
are still around today

What is the American federation of labor?