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24 Cards in this Set
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Ellis island
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Immigration center for immigrants arriving from the east coast.ok conditions.
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Angel island
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Immigration center for Asians, primarily Chinese immigrants from the west coast. Very bad condition
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Melting pot
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A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs
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Nativism
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Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans
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Chinese exclusion act
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Banned entry to all Chinese immigrants EXCEPT students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials
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Gentlemen's agreement
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Japan's government agreed to limit emigration of unskilled workers to the U.S in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order
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Urbanization
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Growth of cities
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Americanization movement
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Designed to assimilate people of wide ranging into the dominant culture
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Tenements
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Multifamily urban dwellings. Often overcrowded and unsanitary
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Mass transit
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Transportation systems designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes, enabled workers to go to and from jobs more easily
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Urban problems
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Housing, transportation, water, crime, fire
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Social gospel movement
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Preached salvation through service to he poor
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Settlement houses
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Community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in that area.
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Jane Adams
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She do-founded Chicago's Hull House, was an anti war activist, a spokesperson for racial justice, and an advocate for quality-of-life issues from infant mortality to better care for the aged
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Political machine
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An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city
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Graft
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The illegal use of political influence for personal gain
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Boss tweed ( William m. Tweed )
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Became of the Tammany hall, New York city's powerful democratic political machine
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Patronage
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Giving of government jobs to people who had helped the candidate get elected
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Civil service
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Government administration
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Rutherford b. Hayes
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Could not convince congress to support reform
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Pendleton civil service act
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Authorized a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through hot a merit system based on candidates' performance on an examination
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Row houses
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One family units that were connected to the next family's house(shared walls)
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Dumbbell tenements
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Tall narrow buildings that were shaped like dumbbells
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Culture shock
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Confusion and worry caused by experiencing a different culture
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