The Gilded Age (1870-1900)

Immigrants

100

This group of immigrants came from North and Western Europe from the 1600s to the mid 1800s. 

What were Old Immigrants

200

This was the entry point for MOST immgrants to America in the late 1800s 

Ellis Island

300

This was the most typical means of transportation for New Immigrants to America

Steamship

400

The place of origin for most New Immigrants

Eastern and Southern Europe. 

500

Having hostility to people of certain foreign nations is called this

Nativism

Cities

100

This is the name for the process of growing cities

Urbanization

200

This was the name for the overcrowded apartment dwellings that characterized the poorer sections America's cities

Tenements

300

This was the type of building that formed America's urban skylines and also gave birth to the profession of architecture

Sky scraper

400

A church providing the poor with a gym and free education out of a sense of charity and justice would an example of this movement

Social Gospel Movement

500

To help move people around, many cities installed these systems above, under or at ground level

Mass transit

Politics

100

This organization controlled most municipal services and politics in many major American cities in the late 1800s

The political machine

200

Political machines illegally made use of their power and influence for personal gain, a practice known as what?

Graft

300

These two groups most often turned to groups like political machines for assistance

Immigrants and the poor

400

This law, passed in 1882, restricted people from a major, Asian nation from emigrating to the United States

Chinese Exclusion Act

500

This group of OLD immigrants was so hated in some areas in the 1850s for its Catholic religion and culture, that signs like "No ___________ need apply" began to appear around America's cities

Irish

Culture

100

A common nickname for this time period (1870-1900) coined by Mark Twain, is defined as having the outward appearance of gold while not being gold underneath

Gilded Age

200

A popular philosophy of the Gilded Age, this idea argued that competitive society produced the best and strongest type of people, who became wealthy and powerful

Social Darwinism

300

This was the process of using education to integrate immigrants into American culture using education 

Americanization

400

These institutions were started by wealthy, middle class women like Jan Addams to assist immigrants in adjusting to American life

Settlement Houses

500

The act of providing money to support social goals and humanitarian purposes has this name

philanothropy

Miscalaneous

100

This type of painting became popular in America in the late 1800s

Realism

200

This American author was famous in the late 1800s for works such as Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

300

This professional sport was developed in the mid 1800s during the Gilded Age involving a stick and a hard ball of wound string. 

Baseball

400

Most New Immigrants had this particular religion

Catholicism

500

This idea was one that said anyone could achieve with enough effort and talent, and encouraged immigrants to risk their lives coming to America

Individualism