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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

Name the process used by Carnegie to mass produce steel.

What is the Bessemer process

100

The most common, and effective, method used by labor unions.

What is a strike?

100

Political Machines assisted immigrants in getting jobs, and several privileges in exchange for...

What are Votes?

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

Method used to own all means of production, from resource extraction to retail sale.

What is Vertical Integration?

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

The rapid growth of cities was largely due to the movement of people into the US, also known as...

What is immigration?

300

John D. Rockefeller became a billionaire after he started this company.

What is Standard Oil Company?

300

Method used by labor companies to negotiate contracts for their members.

What is Collective Bargaining?

300

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

What is a Political Machine?

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

This type of person was usually poor and more likely to live in a tenement.

What is an immigrant?

400

Depending on their actions, a wealthy industry leader could be seen as/labeled in one of these two ways.

What are Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

400

What happened in the Triangle Waist Shirt factory?

What is it burned down with employees inside?

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

Places where immigrants could learn English, take their kids to Kindergarten, or childcare, with the goal of bringing poor and rich together to share ideas.

What are settlement houses?

500

This was the first major, successful labor union in the United States.

What is the Knights of Labor?

500

Well known boss of Tammany Hall political machine, who was convicted for stealing over 25 million dollars

Who is William M. Tweed (Boss Tweed)?