Confusion and anxiety that newly arrived immigrants often experience.
What is Culture Shock?
100
This group was considered the natural ally of political machines.
Who are immigrants?
100
White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, English speaking immigrants who arrived in the United States prior to 1890.
Who are OLD immigrants?
100
Growth of cities
What is Urbanization?
200
This president was a strong supporter of civil service reform. He was able to clean up the nation's customhouses.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
200
Any type of unethical or illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is Graft?
200
New York City Political Machine
What was Tammany Hall?
200
Immigrants from South and Eastern Europe who were Catholic and Jewish, spoke many languages, looked different from old immigrants, and arrived in the U.S. after 1890.
Who are NEW immigrants?
200
Solved the problem of unsafe drinking water in cities
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What is chlorination and filtration?
300
This president surprised everyone by turning reformer. His efforts to persuade Congress resulted in the Pendleton Act.
Who is Chester Arthur?
300
Term referring to the ethnic mix of peoples that combine to make one common culture.
What is the Melting Pot?
300
This shape represents the organization of a political machine with local precinct captains at the bottom, ward bosses in the middle, and city bosses at the top.
What is a pyramid?
300
Where new immigrants arriving and were processed on the west coast of the U.S.
What is Angel Island?
300
This helped solve the problem of crime in cities
What is the introduction of a full-time, professional police departments?
400
This president was nominated by the Republicans because he was considered an independent on the issue of civil-service reform. He was the victim of an assassin.
Who is James Garfield?
400
An attached single-family dwelling that shared side walls with other similar houses.
What is a Row House?
400
Leader of of Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring
Who is William Marcy Tweed or Boss Tweed?
400
Place through which immigrants arriving on the east coast of the U.S. pass before gaining entry to the U.S.
What is Ellis Island?
400
1800's Cable cars, electric streetcars, and electric subways
What is public transportation?
500
This president is the only one to have served two non-consecutive terms. He believed in low tariffs.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
500
Long narrow, five or six story building with an indentation on either side to allow for an air shaft and, thus, an outside window for each room.
What is a Dumbbell Tenement?
500
Political cartoonist whose cartoons helped to bring down the Tweed Ring and Boss Tweed
Who is Thomas Nast?
500
Native-born Americans who reject immigrants and work to restrict immigration.
Who is a Nativist?
500
Was suppose to solve the problem of patronage and corruption in politics