Immigration
What was the main immigration station in NYC where mostly European immigrants entered?
Ellis Island
What overcrowded, unsanitary multifamily urban dwellings did many poor immigrants live in?
Tenements
What organization controlled by a strong "Boss" offered services to voters in exchange for support?
Political Machine
Who made the first successful engine-powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903?
Orville and Wilbur Wright (Wright Brothers)
What form of exaggerated and sensationalized journalism was pioneered by Pulitzer and Hearst?
Yellow Journalism
In which California city was Angel Island located for Asian immigrants?
San Francisco
Which movement preached salvation through service to the urban poor?
Social Gospel movement
What is the illegal use of political influence for personal gain called?
Graft
Who designed the 10-story steel-frame Wainwright Building in St. Louis?
Louis Sullivan
What new type of bicycle made bicycling safer and popular among women?
Safety bicycle
What were immigrants arriving between 1880 and 1924 primarily from Southern/Eastern Europe called?
New Immigrants
What famous settlement house in Chicago was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889?
Hull House
Who was the corrupt boss of Tammany Hall who defrauded NYC of millions?
William M. Tweed (Boss Tweed)
Who was the landscape architect that spearheaded planned parks and designed NYC Central Park?
Frederick Law Olmsted
What famous author and humorist wrote under the pen name Mark Twain?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
What 1868 treaty permitted free migration of Chinese labor to the US?1
Burlingame Treaty (Burlingame-Seward Treaty)
What transportation systems moved large numbers of people along fixed routes (like streetcars, subways)?
Mass transit
Which political cartoonist helped arouse public outrage against Boss Tweed?
Thomas Nast
What camera introduced in 1888 by George Eastman made photography accessible to millions?
Kodak camera
What company opened popular five-and-dime chain stores in the 1870s?
F.W. Woolworth
What 1882 law banned entry to most Chinese immigrants?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Which US city was the first to electrify its urban transit system?
Richmond, Virginia
What 1883 law established that civil service appointments be based on exam scores?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
What agricultural technique popularized by George Washington Carver helped revolutionize farming?
Crop rotation
What Post Office service introduced in 1896 delivered mail directly to rural homes?
Rural Free Delivery (RFD)