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56 Cards in this Set
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What is old immigrants?
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most of them were Protestants from northern Europe.
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What is new immigrants?
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mostly from southern and eastern Europe.
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What is a steerage?
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Are most traveled in the poorest accommodations.
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What are benevolent societies?
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Are to help immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment,and death.
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Who is Denis Kearney?
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is the party's leader was himself an Irish immigrant.
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What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
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which denied citizenship to people born in China and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
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What is Immigration Restriction League?
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sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants.
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Who is Grover Cleveland?
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vetoed it, calling it '' illiberal, narrow, and un-American.''
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What are skyscrapers?
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are large multistory buildings.
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Who is Elisha Otis?
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developed a mechanized elevator, which allowed people and materials to be transported more easily.
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What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
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which denied citizenship to people born in China and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
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What is Immigration Restriction League?
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sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants.
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Who is Grover Cleveland?
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vetoed it, calling it '' illiberal, narrow, and un-American.''
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What are skyscrapers?
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are large multistory buildings.
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Who is Elisha Otis?
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developed a mechanized elevator, which allowed people and materials to be transported more easily.
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What is mass transit?
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Public transportation systems, such as commuter trains and subways, that make it possible for workers to live farther away from their jobs.
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What is a suburbs?
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is a residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
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What is a nouveau riche?
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is a ''newly rich'' ; new class of American city-dwellers that arose in the late 1800s; most made their fortunes from businesses of the Second Industrial Revolution.
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What is conspicuous consumption?
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is a term coined by social scientist Thorstein Veblen to describe spending money just to display one's wealth.
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What is a tenement?
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is a poorly built apartment building housed more than 1.6 million poor New Yorkers in 1900 nearly half the city's population.
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What is mass transit?
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Public transportation systems, such as commuter trains and subways, that make it possible for workers to live farther away from their jobs.
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What is a suburbs?
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is a residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
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What is a nouveau riche?
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is a ''newly rich'' ; new class of American city-dwellers that arose in the late 1800s; most made their fortunes from businesses of the Second Industrial Revolution.
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What is conspicuous consumption?
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is a term coined by social scientist Thorstein Veblen to describe spending money just to display one's wealth.
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What is a tenement?
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is a poorly built apartment building housed more than 1.6 million poor New Yorkers in 1900 nearly half the city's population.
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What are settlement houses?
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is a community service centers in poor neighborhoods.
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Who is Jane Addams?
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was at the forefront of the American settlement-house movement.
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Who is Janie Porter Barrett?
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was the founded one of the first African American settlement houses the Locust Street Social Settlement in Hampton Virginia.
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What is the Social Gospel?
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is movement by Protestant ministers in the late 1800s that applied Christian principles to social problems.
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Who was Caroline Bartlett?
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was the one who organized people's church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, according to the Social Gospel.
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What is compulsory education laws?
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Laws requiring parents to send their children to school.
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Who is John Dewey?
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is one of the main reformers.
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What is a yellow journalism?
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is a style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers.
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What is Fredrick Law Olmsted?
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is a designed central park in new york city.
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What is a City Beautiful movement?
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is movement that stressed the importance of including public parks and attractive boulevards in the designs of cities.
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What is compulsory education laws?
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Laws requiring parents to send their children to school.
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Who is John Dewey?
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is one of the main reformers.
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What is a yellow journalism?
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is a style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers.
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What is Fredrick Law Olmsted?
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is a designed central park in new york city.
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What is a City Beautiful movement?
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is movement that stressed the importance of including public parks and attractive boulevards in the designs of cities.
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Who is Walter Camp?
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is the one that played football for yale during the late 1870s.
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Who is Edwin Booth?
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was the one that proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860s and 1870s.
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What is a vaudeville?
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is the french word for ''light play'' was a type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances.
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What is a rag time?
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was a style of music created by African American pianists in the 1890s who played a driving rhythm with one hand and an improvised melody with the other.
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Who is Scott Joplin?
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was born into a family of musicians from East Texas in 1868.
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Who is Walter Camp?
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is the one that played football for yale during the late 1870s.
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Who is Edwin Booth?
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was the one that proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860s and 1870s.
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What is a vaudeville?
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is the french word for ''light play'' was a type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances.
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What is a rag time?
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was a style of music created by African American pianists in the 1890s who played a driving rhythm with one hand and an improvised melody with the other.
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Who is Scott Joplin?
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was born into a family of musicians from East Texas in 1868.
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Who is Walter Camp?
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is the one that played football for yale during the late 1870s.
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Who is Edwin Booth?
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was the one that proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860s and 1870s.
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What is a vaudeville?
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is the french word for ''light play'' was a type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances.
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What is a rag time?
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was a style of music created by African American pianists in the 1890s who played a driving rhythm with one hand and an improvised melody with the other.
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Who is Scott Joplin?
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was born into a family of musicians from East Texas in 1868.
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Who is James Naismith?
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is a physical educator in Springfield, Massachusetts, invented the game of basketball in 1891.
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