Immigration
Immigration port that European Immigrants came through - in New York City
Ellis Island
Places where immigrant children learned about American culture, history, and language. Encouraged immigrants to become more American.
Americanization/Assimilation Schools
Time period named after society being glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath
Gilded Age
One of the oldests sports in America
Baseball or Boxing
limited the vote to only people who could read
Literacy Test
Leisure invention that allowed for women to have more independence especially in transportation
Bicycles
Immigration port that Asian Immigrants came through - in San Francisco
Angel Island
Common urban problems
Water, Sanitation, Crime, Fires
an organized group that controlled the activities of political party in a city
Political Machine
Created by trolley companies in an attempt to get Americans to spend their paychecks on the weekend
Amusement Parks
added to state constitutions, said that any person could vote if their father or grandfather was qualified to vote before January 1st, 1867
Grandfather Clause
Gave the right to vote to women
19th Amendment
Act that prohibited laborers from China from immigrating to the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
Community centers that attempted to solve issues for the poor and immigrants living in cities. Provided food, clothing, education, and shelter.
Settlement Houses
Most famous Political Boss, ran Tammany Hall in NYC
Boss Tweed
Owner of famous NY Newspapers who influenced the creation of yellow journalism
Joseph Pulitzer of William Randolph Hearst
female writer who spoke out against lynchings happening in the South
Ida B. Wells
leaders of the Women's Rights Movement (only need one)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B Anthony
Tenements
movement that preached salvation through service to the poor
Social Gospel Movement
made it mandatory for Civil Service employees to be hired through a merit based system
Pendleton Civil Service Act
American Art school created by Thomas Eakins
Ashcan School of Art
Supreme Court case that legalized "separate but equal"
Plessy vs. Ferguson
first women's rights convention in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention
Poem that is about the Statue of Liberty
The New Colossus
key leader of the Social Gospel Movement
Jane Addams
President who appointed independents to his cabinet and tried to reform patronage
Rutherford B. Hayes
Popular live theater with diverse acts like comedians, magicians, musicians, and dancers
Vaudeville
a civil rights organization that sought to secure full political, economic, and social rights for African Americans led by W.E.B DuBois
Niagara Movement
favored more confrontational tactics like protests and picketing for women's rights
NWP
(National Women's Party)