The immigrant processing station on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Term for prejudice against foreign-born Americans.
What is nativism?
100
Term meaning the rapid expansion of cities.
What is urbanization?
100
What the streets looked like in major cities during this period.
What is covered in garbage and human waste?
100
Term for groups that controlled the political parties in the cities.
What is a Political Machine?
200
Where Asian immigrants to the United States first landed.
What is Angel Island?
200
Banned entry of Chinese immigrants except for a small group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
This provided immigrants with lessons in English, history, and US customs in an attempt to assimilate them into American society.
What is the Americanization Movement?
200
How the majority of people in cities during this period got their water.
What is from an outdoor faucet? (There was no indoor plumbing in the tenements).
200
The head of the Democratic Party machine in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
300
The idea of giving up one's individual culture to blend with other immigrants.
What is the melting pot?
300
After 1882, this type of Chinese people were kept out of the United States.
What is unskilled laborers?
300
The reason many farmers/rural laborers moved to the cities.
What is the mechanization of farm work?
300
Term for multi-family homes in the cities that were dirty and dangerous.
What is a tenement?
300
Term meaning the illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft?
400
2 of the 4 main reasons why immigrants came to the United States.
What are more opportunity, famine, land shortages, and religious/political persecution?
400
This limited Japanese immigration.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
400
The fire that burned for an entire day, leaving 100,000 people homeless and destroying 3 square miles of the city.
What is the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?
400
Name for community centers set up in slum areas to provide basic charity, medical care, and education to the urban poor.
What is a settlement house?
400
Term meaning giving government jobs to one's friends, not the most qualified candidates.
What is patronage?
500
From 1840-1870, most European immigrants were from Northern and Western Europe. After 1870, most European immigrants came from ___________ and __________ Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
500
Three of the four things required before immigrants were allowed to pass through Ellis Island and enter the United States.
What are health exam, no felonies, $25, and a place to stay in the US.
500
1906 disaster that killed 1,000 people and did $500 million in damage.
What is the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906?
500
This movement for social reform stressed salvation through providing charity to the urban poor and less fortunate.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
500
This law made sure federal jobs were given out based on qualifications.