Immigration
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is Immigrant
constructed apartment building, often built in long rows pointed up to the sky usually located near factories;
What is Skyscrapers
The right to have fair pay and equal jobs
Equality
Use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
What is the gold standard?
What is the Mascot of RMA
What is a Lion
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.
Chinese Immigration Act
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What is SKyscrapers
integrating indians to act as others want them to act after immigration.
What is Assimilation
Payment of part of the profit from a job under government contract; payment is usually to a government official instrumental in awarding the contact.
What is Income from doing a job
A neighborhood for of houses and different races/cultures that have made it their home when migrating.
What is Urbanization
Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
What is Americanization?
a person who moves from an agricultural area to city.
Who are rural-to-urban migrants?
Why did immigrants want to travel from the east to the west?
What is known as the Gold Rush
A law that allowed a certain amount of immigrations in as a citizen one by one instead of all at once.
What is Chinese Exclusion act.
Why did we move rooms from 205 to 206.
Due to the AC not working
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people or goods (materials)
RailRoad/ Train transportation
Who believed in Common Wealth?
Andrew Carnigie
People's Party; political party formed at or around 1896 that had a lot of money and mistreated the minorities because they had money and the minorities didnt.
What is Robber Baron.
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
(what is the name of the time era that we have been working on?)
What is The Gilded Age.
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is Nativism
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization
Who believed in if you put good into the world you can usually expect good in return into the world?
Who is Andrew Carnigie
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
What day of the week is it?
What is Tuesday.