Britain
Who held power in Parliament?
Who are wealthy nobles and squires?
Double the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase/ territory?
Coming to live in another country
What is immigration?
Definition of urbanization.
What is growth of cities?
What is a rotten borough?
Napoleon promise/hope to lower class.
What is ending poverty?
Belief America was destined to stretch from sea to sea
What is Manifest Destiny?
Scandinavians, English, Polish, Irish, Germans, Austrian-Hungarians
What are immigrants of European decent?
Assimilate immigrants into the dominant culture
What is the Americanization movement?
British trade laws that caused much debate
What are the Corn Laws?
Uprising against the French government that resulted in a civil war.
What is the Paris Commune?
The central cause of the Civil War
What is slavery?
Famine, land shortages, decrease in jobs, increase in population, and religious/political persecution
What are reasons for immigration?
Cultural settlements of immigrants
What are ethnic communities?
The British political parties worked toward what reform?
What is extending voting rights?
What is segregation?
Banned Chinese immigrants until 1943
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Housing, water, transportation, crime, fire, and sanitation
What are urban problems?
Government shifted from constitutional monarchy to __________.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
Movement toward rebuilding a Jewish state.
What is Zionism?
Controlled entire industries
What are monopolies?
Immigration station for Asian immigrants
What is Angel Island?
community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to immigrants and the poor
What are settlement houses?