Immigration
This is the chief immigration station located in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
This is a term that refers to the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
Bazinga! This is an organized group that would control one city's political party.
What is a political machine?
The development of this structure forever changed the cityscape and provided for more space by expanding buildings vertically.
What are skyscrapers?
A sport that was invented before the American Civil War would find its foothold in American culture in the early 1900s.
What is baseball?
That is the number of Europeans who were processed at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924.
What is 17 million?
This building is a multi-family dwelling that was often found to be extremely unsanitary and overcrowded.
What is a tenement?
This individual will be in charge of the political machine; whether or not they are an elected official.
What is a city/political boss?
This invention would change transportation through the form of mass transit.
This author's prime was established in the Gilded Age, which is a term that he is credited with coining.
Who is Mark Twain?
This conflict was a significant push factor for Mexican migrants to leave Mexico from 1910 to 1920.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
This was a popular movement whose focus relied on assimilating immigrants into the main American culture.
What is the Americanization movement?
This is an illegal act that involves offering government jobs to your closest allies.
What is patronage?
In 1903, these men invented a "heavier than air" craft that would revolutionize transcontinental travel.
Who are the Wright brothers?
This type of philosophy that was popular in the Gilded Age aimed to reconcile tensions between science, religion, and government.
What is pragmatism?
Zoinks! This was the piece of legislation that virtually banned all Chinese immigrants from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term refers to the ability of families or individuals moving into higher social classes.
What is social mobility?
This term refers to the illegal act of using political power for your own personal gain.
What is graft?
George Washington Carver introduced this agricultural concept to Americans which lead to a resurgence in American agriculture.
What is crop rotation?
The first department store in America was established in 1865 by this gentleman, whose first name still bears the store's namesake.
Who is Marshall Field?
This is a term that many Americans used to describe the blending of cultures during the age of immigration.
What is melting pot?
This term refers to the organization of people into social classes by wealth.
What is social stratification?
This political party found themselves to be opposed to high tariffs.
What is the Democratic Party?
Gentlemen like Frederic Law Olmstead and Daniel Burnham would spearhead the movement that lead to the development of these.
What are city parks?
This form of delivery would ensure that Americans who lived out in the country would receive their mail directly from the post office.
What is rural free delivery?