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25 Cards in this Set
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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
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Decreased Chinese Immigration
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Immigration and migration patterns from 1880-1910 led to what?
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Growth of cities
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What was a Nativist and what did they believe?
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Native born American and believed immigrants threatened the social structure
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What was Tammany Hall?
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New York City Political Machine
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What was the Gentlemen's Agreement?
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Agreement to decrease japanese Immigration
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What ethnic groups made up the "new immigrants"?
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East and South Europeans and Southeast Asia
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What was the goal of the Settlement House Movement?
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Provide education and social services for the working poor
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Mainly what type of ethnic gorups went through Ellis Island?
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European
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What two things did most Russian and Italian immigrants bring with them and maintain in the US?
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Culture and Religion
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What group of people was Nativism most popular with?
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native born Americans
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What is urbanization?
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Growth of Cities
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What was the result in the work place of the influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe after 1880?
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Immigrants worked for low wages and decreasing union bargaining power
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How did industrialization affect rural and urban areas in the United States?
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Increased population in urban areas and drcreased it in rural
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What does the term Gilded Age refer to?
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Glamour hides corruption
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What did Jand Addams, Rutherford B Hayes and Chester Arthur all support?
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Reform
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What main rold idd immigrants play in the Gilded Age in the United States?
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Help industrialize America
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What was patronage?
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Rewarding ones supporters with jobs or benefits
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How did the Chinese and Irish immigrants contribute to the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Provided low cost labor
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Who were the Stalawarts?
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Supporters of the Spoils System
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Why did most immigrants live in the tenemetn houses?
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It was all they could afford
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What was the purpose of the Social Gospel Movement?
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Social Reform
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What was the purpose of the Spoils System?
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Reward one's political supporters.
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Identify and explain why immigrants came to the US in the late 1880s.
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Dream of Riches: Rise in social class and make money
Fled Problems in Native Lands: famine, political, racial, and religious persecution |
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Identify and explain the problems created by the urbanizatin of the US in the late 1880s.
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Overpopulation of the cities: could not provide proper services
Condidtions: crime, unhealthy, fire |
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Identify and explain the role of political machines and how they controlled city governments.
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Growth of cities made it necessary
Used spoils system to stay in power Felt entitled to financial reward because they were doing dirty work of the city. |
