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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

Labor union for skilled workers to help fight for better working conditions such as 8 hour days, and better pay.

What is the American Federation of Labor?

200

Many immigrants and young children were forced to work in these horrible conditions in small factories.

What are sweat shops?

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

ensure railroads set "reasonable and just" rate and to regulate businesses such as railroads

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

200

Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities often lead by a political boss.

What are political machines?

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

This outlawed business monopolies.

What is the Sherman Anti-trust 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 or railroads?

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
What are Political machines?
500
Political scandal involving "William Boss Tweed" and the Tammy Hall political machine. 

What is the Tweed Ring Scandal ?