Immigration
process of holding on to old traditions while adapting to a new culture
What is acculturation?
the movement of population from farms to cities
What is urbanization?
all government jobs except elected offices and those in the military
What is civil service?
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
The requirement for children to attend school
What is compulsory education?
Reasons people left their countries and reasons they came to the U.S.
What were push and pull factors?
Housing available for immigrants and the poor in the cities
What were tenements?
a person who wanted to destroy all trusts
What was a trustbuster?
Neighborhoods and support services from and for Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans
What were barrios and mutualistas?
Two examples of new American pastimes
Baseball, music (ragtime, marching), vaudeville, shopping, basketball?
Two immigration stations on the West and East Coast
What were Angel Island and Ellis Island?
Examples of aid offered through settlement houses
What were school/childcare, English classes, recreation sports?
Three Progressive Presidents
Who were Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
The Prohibition amendment and the women’s suffrage amendment
What are the 18th and 19th Amendments?
Definition of yellow journalism
What was a type of news reporting, often biased or untrue, that relies on sensational stories and headlines?
Definition and examples of Nativism
What were Americans who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants?
What were Chinese Exclusion Act, employment limitations, Catholic school discrimination, segregation?
Spiritual belief that the wealthy should help the poor
What was Social Gospel?
The three political parties of the election of 1912
What were the Democratic, Republican, and Bull Moose?
Two nations that formed the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” to address nativism and immigration from Asia
What were the United States and Japan?
Factor that led to the rise of the newspaper industry
Compulsory education led to higher literacy rates, job opportunities meant more money to spend, yellow journalism led to a rise in competition
The European region immigrants came from in the mid-1800s and the region they came from in the late 1800s
What were Western Europe and then Eastern Europe?
Physical changes made to cities with the rising populations
What were parks, skyscrapers, public transportation, department stores, stadiums, suburbs?
An example of an accomplishment for each of the Progressive presidents
Roosevelt - Square Deal, reforms to trusts, conservation
Taft - labor reform, working hours, mining protections
Wilson - Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission, New Freedom
The difference in approaches to African American reform between W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington - use business and industrialization to make money and rise in society, then fight discrimination
W. E. B. DuBois - actively fight discrimination
Progressive group of people who used newspapers to expose corruption
Who were the muckrakers?