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Vocabulary 1
Immigrants 1
Immigrants 2
Urbanization
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The part of the ship where most immigrants traveled.
What is steerage
100

Before 1880: These people came from Great Britain, Ireland and Germany. Most people spoke English

Who are  “Old immigrants”

100

These men began arriving during the California Gold Rush and help to build the transcontinental railroad in California. 

Who is Chinese men

100
This became a specialized career when skyscrapers began to be designed.
What is architecture?
100

Immigrants went to live in neighborhoods in cities. They lived with others who spoke the same language and practice the same traditions. 

What is Ethnic “Ghettos” 

200
Overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
What is tenement?
200
This motivated most rural-to-urban migration
What is steady employment?
200

band almost all immigrants from China, and was the first restriction ever placed on immigrants to the United States (other than against criminals or unhealthy persons).

What is the "The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)"

200
Urban leaders counted on schools to do this.
What is to Americanize new immigrants?
200

Steamship company’s made it more affordable to come to America

What is "The Voyage"

300

The movement of population from the countryside to cities 

What is Urbanization

300

These people came from Southern and Eastern Europe, Poland, Russia, Italy, Greece.

Who are  “New Immigrants”

300

Begin arriving at the end of the century their immigration was cut off

Japanese Americans

300
Two ways city planners tried to improve city life.
What is creating zoning and city parks?
300

Usually the children of immigrants were the first to be Americanized or a assimilated into mainstream society by learning the values and behaviors of American culture.

What is "Americanization"

400

Attempts by Granger to set up their own businesses for buying and selling bulk.

What is Farmers Cooperatives 

400
Europen immigrants entered the United States through here.
What is Ellis Island ?
400

Most immigrants came to America for these two reasons

What is economic opportunity and religious freedom?


DAILY DOUBLE 

2X THE AMOUNT

400
Two types of jobs that lured women to the cities.
What is factory work, teachers, secretaries or typists?
400

National Association of farmers social clubs served social and educational purposes 

What is "Granger movement"

500
The belief that native-born white Americans were better than newcomers
What is nativism
500
Most Asian immigrants entered the United States here.
What is Angel Island?
500

In 1907 Japan and United States came to this agreement

What is the Gentlemen's Agreement

500
Two types of problems that many cities had.
What is housing deteriorated, sanitation was poor, and crime rose?
500

In the early 1890s a new national political party to represent the common interests of farmers and workers 

What is the "Populist Party"