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People who move to live permanently in a different country.
Who are immigrants?
100
Poor areas of a city where people from similar ethnic groups live.
What are ghettos?
100
The process by which many people come to live in cities.
This led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements. It negatively impacted immigrants.
What is urbanization and rapid industrialization?
100
A government document granting the inventor sole rights to an invention and protecting the invention from being copied by others.
What is a patent?
100
Run-down apartment buildings.
What are tentaments?
200
Reason why many Americans moved from rural to urban areas.
What are better job opportunities?
200
Cities grew and developed because ____________, which means people left their home countries and settled in America.
What is immigration?
200
This allowed for finished products to be transported to national markets.
What are advances in transportation?
(Transcontinental Railroad)
200
An increase in immigration, rapid industrialization, and discrimination led to ____________ of tenements and ghettos.
What is overcrowding?
200
In order to transport more resources, factories were located near these.
What are rivers and railroads?
300
This industry was based in Chicago, Illinois.
Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" helped set health standards for this industry as well.
What is the meatpacking industry?
300
This industry, that depended on iron ore deposits, was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
There is a popular NFL team named after this industry as well.
What is the steel industry?
300
This industry was based in New England. An immigrant working in this industry would work with cotton and wool.
What is the textile industry?
300
This industry was based in Detroit, Michigan. Workers typically were on an assembly line.
What is the automobile industry?
300
Manufacturing areas were typically clustered around ____________ centers.
What is population?
400
How political machines gained power in America.
It is defined by political corruption in which candidates would unfairly reward supporters with government jobs and contracts.
What is a spoils system?
400
American inventor who held many patents for uses of electricity, including the light bulb. He also established the first power company.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
Hope for better opportunities, desire for religious freedom, escape from oppressive governments, and desire for adventure.
What are reasons for increase in immigration following the Civil War?
400
Invention by Alexander Graham Bell that contributed to change and growth in America.
What is the telephone?
400
Name of the system where corrupt candidates gain power by focusing on the needs of immigrants.
They would buy votes or cast fake ballots to ensure certain candidates won the election.
Boss Tweed was a participant in this system.
What is a political machine?
500
Settlement house founded by Jane Addams. Helped find work, deal with landlords, educate parents, and children,
What is the Hull House?
500
Three groups of European immigrants that faced discrimination.
Who are Irish, Polish, and Italian immigrants?
500
Group of immigrants that faced discrimination based on their religion and ethnicity.
Who are Jewish immigrants?
500
Group of immigrants from that experienced discrimination and racism despite being an important part of building the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
500
This law limited the number of immigrants entering America each year.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?