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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

The right to vote..

What is suffrage?

100

This is the economic ideology meaning to let do or a hands-off policy by the government. 

What is laissez faire economics?

100

This US amendment granted African American men the right to vote during the Reconstruction Era. 

What is the 15th Amendment? 

200

Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks to months to be processed.

What is the Angel Island?

200
After the construction of this transportation system, the US began to expand and urbanize at a faster pace. 

What is the transcontinental railroad? 

200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

This piece of legislation gave 160 acres of public land to any adult willing to move out west and improve the land for 5 years. 

What is the Homestead Act?

200

Term used to describe the blending of different cultures and backgrounds, all coming together, to create a shared society.

What is a Melting Pot?

300

She helped new immigrants settle into America by creating a settlement house known as Hull House.

Who is Jane Addams?

300

These are the forces that drive people to leave their current home and move to a new location 

What are push-pull factors?

300

1896 Supreme Court case allowing for the "separate but equal" clause.

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

He exposed the harsh living conditions of poor immigrants in NYC tenement homes. 

Who is Jacob Riis?

400

This is the place where the US government attempted to assimilate native children.

What is a boarding school?

400

This piece of legislation was the first time the government attempted to regulate the economy. 

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

400

This was a huge scandal during Grant's administration involving the Union Pacific Railroad company & US politicians while building the Transcontinental Railroad. 

What is the Crédit Mobilier scandal?

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

This legislation divided native lands into private property, freeing up millions of acres for the taking.  

What is the Dawes Act?

500
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
500

These are tactics used to prevent voters from exercising their right to vote.

What is disenfranchisement methods?