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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 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

This amendment creates African-American freedom

What is the 13th Amendment?

300

the process where individuals or minority groups adopt the culture, behaviors, and language of a dominant society, often losing their original cultural identity

What is Assimilation 

300

This is the pull factor that drew many immigrants and people from rural areas to the cities in the northeast.

What is factory jobs?

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

was a powerful 19th-century New York City politician who led the Tammany Hall Democratic political machine

Who was Willian "Boss" Tweed

300

This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

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

These were the members of the Congress who pushed for the immediate abolition of slavery, civil rights for African Americans, and harsh punishment for the South  

Radical Republicans

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
What are Political machines?
500

This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union

What is the 10% plan