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What is immigration |
The movement between one country from another |
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Why did Europeans come to America in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen-hundreds |
Define better jobs to avoid military service to escape poverty and religious freedom |
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How many immigrants came to the United States between 1865 and 1914 |
25 million |
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By the late 1890s half of all the immigrants in the United States came from what part of Europe |
The eastern and southern Europe |
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What is new immigration |
Immigrants that came from 1890 from Southern and Eastern Europe |
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What is old immigration |
Came from northern and western Europe from 1840 |
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List reasons for why immigrants were coming to the United States |
More jobs Escape military service Xscape property population pressure oppressive government |
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Define steerage |
Least costing space into a ship |
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What is Ellis Island |
A tiny Island in New York Harbor with a huge three-story building service processing center for many of the immigrants arriving from Europe after 1892 |
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What are the reasons for Asian immigration |
Two escaped from the Civil War famine severe unemployment |
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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act |
Evolve bear Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevent of the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens |
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Define nativism |
An extreme dislike of immigration's by native-born people |
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What was the literacy debate |
Theodore Roosevelt suggested literacy tests in any language for coming immigrants to reduce immigration from Southeastern Europe |
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What are some characteristics of cities |
Busy type Dirty overpopulated skyscraper traffic |
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Why were immigrants and Rural Americans moving to the cities |
To look for work electric lights and Plumbing |
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Where was the first skyscraper built and how many stories was it |
Chicago 10 story home insurance |
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Describe the separation of classes in society during the time period |
Upper class middle class and the working class and urban poverty the upper class could afford elaborate mansions in middle-class family could afford their own home it's only had one made the working-class family who live in apartments the urban class unable to afford homes slept on the street |
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Define tenement what was life like living in a tenement |
Apartment buildings they were very dark and crowded multifamily Apartments |
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What were many of these issues that could be seen in the cities |
Sewage crime pollution alcohol and disease |
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What is a political machine |
The form of political group designed to gain and keep power about the party |
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Who was George plunkitt |
One of New York City's most powerful party bosses definition of what he called honest graft |
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Who was William Boss Tweed |
The tammy Hall in the New York City Democratic political machine was most infamous such organizations leaders |
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Define graft and fraud |
Getting money from dishonest or questionable means |
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What were the characteristics of the Gilded Age |
The Gilded Age was meant to show how nice something seems but it really is worse which is shown within the age |
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What does gilded mean |
Gold on the outside and some cheaper or fake metal on the inside |
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Who coined the term the Gilded Age where did it come from |
Mark Twain and Charles Warner novels of the Gilded Age called a title of today |
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How can the phrase Gilded Age be applied to American history |
Because people from other countries thought America was great but really it was worse than it seems |
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What was the idea of individualism |
A belief that no matter how poor they are they can always write in society and go as far as her talents and commitment would take them |
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What was the idea of social Darwinism |
Social Darwin parallel the economic doctrine of lazy fare and oppose any government programs applied Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection to Human Society |
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How did he apply Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection to Human Society |
Reply this theory about if you would have fittest you will advise in the social classes |
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Who was Horatio Alger |
Was known for his hundred-plus rags to riches novels |
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Describe Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of wealth |
Encourage for people with money to create conditions that will help people help themselves |
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Describe the Interstate Commerce Act |
The matter how much they have they will be shipped at the same price |
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What was the social gospel |
A movement work to better conditions in cities according to the biblical idea of Charity and justice |
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Describe the YMCA and the Salvation Army |
The awkward face and an interested in reform health and restaurant workers and the urban poor by organizing Bible studies citizen training and group activities the YMCA offering libraries gymnasiums Auditorium and the low-cost hotel rooms 04 a temporary basis and those in need |
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What is a settlement house who was Jane Addams |
A settlement house was a community center with programs to help the poor |
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Define Americanization |
Schools immigrant children were taught English and learned about the American history and culture |
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What is populism how did it affect the United States |
Was the movement to increase Farmers political power and to work for legislation for interest that affected the United States they will be able to produce more crops but the greater Supply help cause prices to fall |
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Define greenbacks |
Paper currency that cannot be exchanged for gold or silver coins |
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Describe the patrons of the husbandry organization who founded |
Oliver H Kelley founded the Grange it was found to help farmers look for help and respond to crisis |
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Describe the farmers Alliance |
The Granger began to fall apart and new organization of the farmers Alliance Alliance formed by 1819 Charles W macule became the leader of the alliance have the same idea as the Granger |
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What is racial segregation why is it inherently wrong |
Racial segregation is the separation of people by the racism is wrong because it wasn't right |
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Define sharecroppers |
Landless farmers who gave their landlord a large portion of the cops as rent rather than paying cash |
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Who was Benjamin pop Singleton |
A former slaves became convicted that African Americans will never be given a chance to get ahead in the south |
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Summarize the 15th Amendment |
Prohibits federal and state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race |
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Summarize the 14th Amendment |
No State can deny citizens equal protection under the law |
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What is the grandfather clause |
Across something certain classes of people or things for requirements of piece of legislation affecting the previous privileges or practices |
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What are Jim Crow laws |
Southern States passed laws enforced discrimination |
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Summarize the court case Plessy versus Ferguson |
Homer Pursley challenge Louisiana laws for Tim to avoid in separate railroad cars from whites |
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Who was Ida b.wells |
A fairly young African-American woman from Tennessee lost of fairness against lynching |
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Who was Mary Church Terrell |
Was one of the first African American woman to earn a college degree I can we known as the National advocates for American rights and suffrage |
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Who was Booker T Washington and what was the Atlanta Compromise |
He proposed that African-Americans concentrate on learning economic goals rather than political ones Atlantic compromise was a spread towards African-Americans to postpone the fight for civil rights and instead concentrate on preparing themselves educationally and vocally for full equality |
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Who was w.e.b.du bois what was he concerned |
The leader of a new generation of African American activist s |
