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 right to vote..
What is suffrage?
100
Use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
What is the gold standard?
100
He argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
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
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
Payment of part of the profit from a job under government contract; payment is usually to a government official instrumental in awarding the contact.
What are Kickbacks?
200
White People of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture.
What is a Melting Pot?
300
Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
What is Americanization?
300
a person who moves from an agricultural area to city.
Who are rural-to-urban migrants?
300
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
300
Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
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
Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people
What is mass transit?
400
Argued that African Americans needed to accommodate themselves to segregation.
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
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
Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
500
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s