Immigration
The immigrant processing center for Europeans coming to America.
What is Ellis Island?
The new type of building that rose in cities because of the mass production of steel.
What is the skyscraper?
An organization that controls the city government through corruption.
What are political machines?
The term for teaching immigrant kids American culture and customs.
What is Americanization?
Horatio Alger wrote over 100 of these types of novels.
What are rags-to-riches novels?
Where most immigrants live when they move to America.
The economic class that grows most during industrialization.
What is the middle class?
The most notorious political machine in America. (NYC)
What is Tammany Hall?
Two charitable organizations that help the urban poor in Gilded Age.
What is the Salvation Army and the YMCA?
This applies the principles of natural selection to humans and society.
What is Social Darwinism?
Movement that wants to limit immigration and prefers native-born people
What is nativism?
Crowded apartments during the Gilded Age are known as what?
What are tenements?
The most famous party boss of Tammany Hall in the Gilded Age
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
The buildings where middle-class people move in with poor people to mentor them.
What is a settlement house?
When wealthy people, like Andrew Carnegie, donate much of their wealth to charity.
What is philanthropy?
The checkpoint for Asian immigrants coming to America.
Two main reasons why Americans moved from rural to urban areas during the Gilded Age.
Group that benefits the most from political machines.
Who are immigrants OR working class (poor, lower class, etc)?
The lady who founded the settlement house movement.
Who is Jane Addams?
The main reason why America needed immigrants during the Gilded Age.
What is demand for labor (more workers)?
Law that banned Chinese immigration for 60 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What are 3 problems of life during the Gilded Age?
What is corruption, poverty, crime, disparity, pollution, disease?
The reason why politicians engage in fraud and corruption.
What is money?
The leader of the African-American education movement. (Tuskegee Institute)
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This is the word used to describe the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?