| Question |
Answer |
| Where were European immigrants processed before entering the United States? | Ellis Island |
| What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? | This banned Chinese immigration for ten years |
| Definition of assimilation | When people gave up parts of their culture to blend in culture of the US |
| How did Sears and MOntgomery Wards change the way products were sold? | They compiled all of their merchandise into a large book. |
| examples of mass culture | Spectator sports, vodeville, nickalodian, and ragtime |
| Blend of African-American and European musical forms developed into? | Ragtime |
| Popular style of live entertainment similar to "Saturday Night Live"? | Vaudeville |
| Problems for people in tenements | overcrowding, poor sanitation ect. |
| Jane Addams' achievements | The first famous person who established first settlement house |
| Role of political machines | The group that helped immigrants find jobs ect. in exchange for goats |
| Jim Crow laws | The things in South ment to enforce segregation |
| Booker T washington's philposophy | The guy who founded the Teski University |
| Experiences of Asian immigrants entering the United States | Unsanitary enviornments |
| Examples of discrimination against Asians in the West | Chinese laboerers recieved lower wages that whites for the same work and faced violence. |
| How did tenements contribute to urbanization? | (blank) |
| How did Pulitzer and Hearst change newspapters? | (blank) |
| Who did manufactureres and advertisers target? | women |
| How did southern states prevent African-Americans from voting? | Literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clauses |
| Effect of Plessy v Ferguson | Said that seperate but equal was ok but was never equal |
| Why was the NAACP founded? | to end segregation and advancement for Black (to provide rights) |
| What allowed the construction of skyscrapers? | The advancement of steel and elevators and overcrowding |
| Significance of advertising, mail order catalogs, spectator sports? | |
| Where was segregation most strictly enforced? | (blank) |
| Main purpose of settlement house | (blank) |
| How did government help immigrants assimilate? | By offering classes in citizenship and English |
| How were political machines and settlement houses similar? | (blank) |
| Reasons for discriminating against the "new" immigrants | The Americans were afraid they would take all of the available jobs. |
| Differences between the "new" and "old" immigrants | The "new" immigrants were mostly southern and eastern Europeans, whereas "old" immigrants mostly came from northern and western |
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