Immigrants who came through this immigration station were primarily Asian. They were forced to endure harsh questioning and stayed in filthy buildings while waiting to enter the country.
What is Angel Island?
100
This term describes efforts to force Native Americans to give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture.
What is assimilation?
100
The electric street car is an early form of this key aspect of urban planning.
What is mass transit?
100
African Americans were forced to pay this fee every year before qualifying to vote.
What is a poll tax?
100
Plains Indians used buffalo hide for these important items.
What are clothes, tepees, shoes, and blankets?
200
This system helped immigrants obtain citizenship, housing, and jobs in exchange for votes.
What is the political machine?
200
This political party promised to help farmers get out of debt and to give the people a greater voice in their government.
What is the Populist Party?
200
These multi family urban dwellings were often overcrowded and unsanitary.
What are tenements?
200
Congress restricted immigration from this country by only allowing students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials to enter the US.
What is China? (Through the Chinese Exclusion Act)
200
Congress passed this piece of legislation in order to encourage white settlers to move West.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
This term describes a belief that native-born Americans and those from the "right" countries were better than immigrants from the "wrong" countries.
What is nativism?
300
This term describes the practice of giving government jobs to people who had helped get a candidate elected.
What is patronage?
300
This technique made steel lighter and more flexible, and made innovative construction possible.
What is the Bessemer Process?
300
The grandfather clause stated this exception to Southern voting restrictions.
What is a man was entitled to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been able to vote before January 1st, 1867?
300
George Custer's discovery of gold led him to lead this conflict between the US Army and the Sioux tribe.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn? (Also known as Custer's Last Stand).
400
Middle class, college educated women started these community centers in immigrant neighborhoods.
What are settlement houses?
400
After a bomb was thrown during this incident, the public began to turn against the labor movement.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
400
List three factors that led to major fires occurring in nearly every large American city.
What is a lack of water, many wooden buildings, the use of candles and kerosene heaters, and a lack of paid fire fighters.
400
Plessy vs Ferguson established this legal guideline for segregation.
What is separate but equal?
400
This key piece of infrastructure linked existing Eastern cities with new communities in the West.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
This was designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture.
What is the Americanization movement?
500
This act was passed after farmers protested against the expensive fees the railroads charged them to haul their goods.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
These leaders used their power to build parks and sewer systems, and gave money to schools, hospitals, and orphanages.
Who are political bosses?
500
Some Mexican laborers were forced into this system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.
What is debt peonage?
500
This piece of legislation broke up the reservations and sold 2/3 of native territory to white settlers. Native Americans received no money from the sale of these lands.