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Give Me Your Tired
This and that
Wait a minute
Home sweet home
That was then, this is now
100
The main immigration processing station in New York
What is Ellis Island?
100
the growth of cities
What is urbanization?
100
Passed by Congress in 1882 to decrease immigration of a certain group of Asian immigrants
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
multifamily urban dwellings, often overcrowded and unsanitary
What are tenements?
100
corrupt head of NY's Tammany Hall's political machine
Who was Boss Tweed?
200
The main immigration processing station in San Francisco
What is Angel island?
200
movement that urged people to help the poor, it was a moral or religious duty
What is the Social Gospel movement?
200
illegal use of political influence for personal gain or the illegal use of your government position to benefit yourself
What is graft?
200
a new type of housing that conserved space by sharing side walls with other buildings
What is a row house?
200
Founded in the late 1800s by social reformers to help the poor
What are settlement houses?
300
many immigrants were drawn to the U.S. by a sense of _____________________ (opposite of pessimism)
What is optimism?
300
photographer who documented life in the tenements and wrote How the Other Half Lives
Who was Jacob Riis?
300
a famous New York City political machine
What is Tammany Hall?
300
in 1889 Chicago, she established Hull House, which helped new immigrants and the urban poor
Who is Jane Addams?
300
appointing a friend to a political position
What is patronage?
400
in the late 19th century, anti-immigrant groups were on the rise
What is nativism?
400
a group that controlled a political party
What is a political machine?
400
The settlement house established by Jane Addams in 1889 in Chicago to help the poor
What is Hull House?
400
he became president after Garfield was assassinated and pushed through civil service reform
Who was Chester A. Arthur?
400
applicants for government jobs must now pass examinations because of this
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
500
a mixture of different cultures or races who have blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs (America is often called this)
What is the melting pot?
500
President who was assassinated by a stalwart (persons who opposed changing the patronage system_
Who was James Garfield?
500
The main goal was to assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture
What was the Americanization movement?
500
sewage, unclean water, pollution, disease, garbage
What are some urban problems?
500
elected president in 1876, he established a commission to investigate the corrupt act of granting government jobs to supporters
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?