Chapter 21

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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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