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Immigration
Urbanization
Robber Barons
City Life
Mixed
100
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

Robber Barons can more positively be called?

Captains of Industry

100

Who lived in the center of the cities?

Rich upper class.

100

The right to vote

Suffrage
200
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.
What is the Angel Island?
200
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
200

Who dominated the Steel Market?

Andrew Carnegie. 

200

What city had the most new immigrants?

New York

200

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?

300

What class of ticket would a new immigrant buy to sail to the U.S.?

Steerage Class

300

What is the Gilded Age?

Time of great change modernization covers social problems

300

Rockefellers Company that dominated the Oil industry was called?

Standard Oil

300

Who commuted into the cities for work?

Middle Class

300
Public transportation systems designed to carry large amounts of people. Give one urban example.

Mass transit. Trolley, subway

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

Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people

What is subway or Cable Car?

400

What does Laissez-Faire mean?

Hands Off

400

Lack of sanitation led to these outbreaks?

Cholera 

400

1896 Supreme Court Decision that established "Separate but Equal" in the Jim Crow era.

Plessy v. Ferguson 

500
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
500
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
500

What was Andrew Carnegies famous philosophy and book title?

The Gospel of Wealth

500

This event prompted the creation of fire departments?

The Great Chicago Fire

500

Advocated that African Americans needed to accommodate themselves to segregation; He argued that African Americans should demand full and immediate equality.

Booker T. Washington; W.E.B. Du Bois