IMMIGRATION & POPULATION
This region replaced Northern and Western Europe as the main source of immigrants to the U.S. by the late 1800s.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
This new technology replaced individual settlers as the “pioneer of civilization” in the late 1800s.
What is the railroad?
The rapid growth of factories, machines, and mass production in the late 1800s is known as this.
What is industrialization?
This New York political boss became a symbol of corruption during the Gilded Age.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Large numbers of people moving to cities is known as this process.
What is urbanization?
This word means the place where a person or group comes from.
What is origin?
Railroad expansion encouraged this major movement of people across the United States.
What is westward migration?
This steel magnate believed wealthy people had a responsibility to help society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Political machines often gained power by controlling this democratic process.
What is voting?
Many immigrants and workers lived in these overcrowded apartment buildings.
What are tenements?
One major pull factor that attracted immigrants to the United States during the Gilded Age
What are industrial jobs / economic opportunity?
Railroads most directly contributed to the growth of these new settlements
What are towns and cities?
Carnegie argued that wealth should be used for this purpose rather than given directly to individuals.
What is funding public institutions like libraries and schools?
Boss Tweed’s power depended heavily on support from this group.
Who are immigrants?
A major problem faced by residents of tenements.
What is unsanitary living conditions or overcrowding?
One major push factor that forced many immigrants to leave Europe in the late 1800s
What are famine, poverty, or religious persecution?
This economic activity expanded as railroads connected farms and mines to markets
What is agriculture or commerce?
This phrase describes the growing gap between the rich and the poor during the Gilded Age.
What is economic inequality?
This term refers to the dishonest use of political power for personal gain.
What is corruption?
Industrial jobs caused cities to grow faster than this could keep up.
What is housing or infrastructure?
This law limited immigration from China but did not stop overall immigration to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Overall, railroads helped turn the West into this type of economy.
What is an industrial and commercial economy?
The idea that the wealthy should use their money to benefit society is known as this belief.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The public reaction against corruption helped lead to this reform movement in the early 1900s
What is the Progressive Movement?
Journalists like Jacob Riis exposed poor living conditions to encourage this type of change.
What is social reform?