Immigration
The place where immigrants from Eastern & Southern Europe were processed in NYC.
What was Ellis Island?
This term refers to a high concentration of buildings, housing, and people compared to surrounding regions.
What is urban?
This spectator sport was a modified form of soccer and rugby.
What was football?
A term that refers to losing the right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
This increased as people were determined to “Americanize” immigrant children.
What was/is public education?
The place where immigrants from China and the rest of Asia were processed in California.
What was Angel Island?
These offered jobs in urban areas.
What were/are factories?
This sport was invented by a physical education teacher, when he nailed 2 peach baskets to the wall of the
What is basketball?
A tax to be paid in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This alloy enabled tall buildings called skyscrapers to built higher and higher.
What was/is steel?
The belief that native born Americans were/are superior to immigrants.
What is Nativism?
These were low cost rental housing that barely met minimal living requirements.
What were tenements?
Because of its popularity, this sport became America's national pastime.
What is baseball?
These laws said you could vote if your grandfather could vote.
What were Grandfather Clauses?
Orville & Wilbur Wright, bicycle manufacturers in Columbus, invented these which were used in WWI and after the war for air mail.
What were airplanes?
Beginning is 1882 and lasting until 1943, this group was prohibited from immigrating to the United States unless they had a special skills or could prove they had an American parent.
Who were the Chinese?
The first documented asymptomatic carrier of Salmonella typhi bacteria.
Who was (Typhoid) Mary Mallon?
These were the poor man's social club.
What were saloons?
This Supreme Court case said that "separate but equal" was allowed.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
The camera led to a new career.
What was/is photojournalism?
This was a joint venture between the United States and France to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Pollution, raw sewage in drinking water, and crowded living conditions led to these. Hint, think very broadly.
What were diseases?
This women's movement advocated total abstinence from alcohol.
What was the Temperance Movement?
An early civil rights leader said that segregation had to end immediately in his Niagara Movement.
Who was W.E.B. du Bois?
This was sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation.
What was yellow journalism?