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20 Cards in this Set
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Oral History |
A recording of an interview with someone recalling a specific event that a historian contextualizes |
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Ellis Island |
Where European immigrants were dropped off |
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Angel Island |
Where Asian immigrants were dropped off |
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Buttonhook |
Instrument used to look at newly arrived immigrants eyes |
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Trachoma |
An infection that causes blindness |
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Melting Pot |
Multiple nationalities mixing together to create one unique culture.
Some worried that one 'flavour' (nationality/culture) would be more dominant |
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Nativism |
A hatred towards new immigrants from people living in America that see themselves as the "natives" |
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Urbanization |
Rapid population growth in cities |
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Assimilate |
Adapt to a country's culture (ex. learn language and behaviour) |
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Mass Transit |
To move massive amounts of people around a city |
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Lynching |
Killed for a supposable crime |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Segregating people in public |
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Segregation |
Keeping races/gender separated |
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Homer Plessy |
Took his court case to the supreme court. He was charge with sitting in the White section of the train |
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The Chinese Exclusion Act |
Forbid people from China to immigrate the US, unless they were students or professionals |
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Tenements |
Single row of houses. Most immigrants lived here. Poor sanitation caused health problems. Rooms were cramped. |
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Social Gospel Movement |
Belief that if you helped those less fortunately (aka living in the slums) you would be saved |
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Settlement Houses |
Where immigrants could go an be educated (English, behaviour, painting) |
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Grandfather Clause |
A person could vote if his father or grandfather could vote pre-1867 |
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Poll Tax |
An annual (yearly) tax that people in the South had to pay |
