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24 Cards in this Set
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Immigrant |
A person who leaves another country in order to go to a new country |
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Ethnic |
Your cultural background |
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Segregate |
To separate based on race or religion |
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Ghetto |
A separate section of a city or town where people of a certain race or religion live |
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Steerage |
3rd class of a ship, where most of the immigrants were put |
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Ellis Island |
An inspection station for immigrants coming from Japan and China from the West Coast |
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Union |
A workers organization. |
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Strike |
When workers refused to work until the owners give them what they ask for |
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Collective Bargaining |
Is when two sides do not agree, so they bargain. |
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Compromise |
When each side gives in a little to reach a settlement |
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Strikebreakers |
Were nonunion workers hired by the company to do the work of the workers who were on strike |
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Spoil System |
Led to more corruption in the federal government. The system giving public jobs as political rewards |
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The progressives |
Were reformers who believed that progress (changes to improve life) could be made |
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Reform |
To improve or to change |
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Social Reforms |
Worked to help the poor by working on such social problems as poverty and lack of health care. |
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Jane Addams |
She was a leader of social reform. She moved into a Chicago Slum. There she opened a settlement house in 1889 called Hull House. |
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Hull House |
Was a community center, that offered many kinds of free services. |
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Political Reformers |
Were the progressives who believed that one way to improve government was to give the people more of a voice in running it. |
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Recall |
Is a special election in which people can vote to remove an official from office. (Schwartzeneger won a recall in California.) |
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Primary Election |
When people in each political part vote for the candidates who will run for government offices. |
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Initiative |
Is a suggestion for a state law that comes from the people, instead of the state legislature. |
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James Garfield |
In 1881 he was assassinated. He was killed by a man who had not been given a job through the spoil system. |
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Chester Arthur |
He became President and worked with Congress to bring about reform |
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Civil Service Act (1883) |
This act created the civil service system. Under that system, people who want government jobs must pass tests to prove they can do the jobs. |
