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Immingration
Urbanization
The Gilded Age
Technology
Schools
100
Immigrants coming to New York typically landed on this island.
What is Ellis Island?
100
This is another name for an urban area.
What is a city?
100
To guild something means to cover it in a thin layer of this substance.
What is gold?
100
He was the most famous inventor of the age, working in his laboratories at Menlo Park.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
By 1920, the number of students attending this had doubled in just 30 years.
What is high school?
200
Most immigrants to the US in 1900 came from this continent.
What is Europe?
200
Cities grew quickly because of an influx of this group of people, especially from Europe.
Who are immigrants?
200
Many business leaders became wealthy during the Gilded Age because the government did not charge them a yearly________.
What is income tax?
200
Airplanes
Who are the Wright Brothers?
200
His Tuskegee Institute offered job skills to African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
Upon arriving in America, immigrants were encouraged to __________ or become part of the American melting pot.
What is assimilate?
300
Cities allowed for easy _______ or Americanization of immigrants to the US.
What is assimilation?
300
This act of Congress ended Andrew Jackson's spoils system and gave government jobs to qualified applicants only.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883?
300
The portable camera
Who is George Eastman?
300
He believed African Americans should be offered opportunities in higher education.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
This movement strongly opposed mass immigration because they feared it would forever change the American culture.
What is nativism?
400
Name two problems faced by city dwellers around 1900.
Varies
400
This New York City 'Boss' personifies government greed and corruption during the Gilded Age.
Who is Boss William Tweed?
400
The Otis ______ along with cheap steel allowed skyscrappers to rise into the sky.
What is elevator?
400
Attendance at these schools quadrupled during the Gilded Age.
What are colleges?
500
Anti-Asian sentiments led to deep restrictions against this immigrant group.
Who are the Chinese?
500
She established Hull House, a settlement house which helped poor city dwellers, especially immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
Name a Gilded Age president between 1877 and 1897.
Varies
500
Air conditioning
Who was Edison?
500
Many young children began attending this early school first invented as a 'children's garden' in Germany.
What is kindergarten?