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Chapters 20 and 21

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Push factors   Conditions that drive people to leave their homes  
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Pull Factors   Conditions that attract people to a new area  
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Name 2 push factors that brought people to the US   In Europe: Political and religious persecution, Mexico: Mexican War, General: Scare land and inability to support family  
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Pull factors that brought people to US   The promise of freedom, friends talking about how good it is, need for workers, cheap to move to the U.S.  
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Emma Lazarus   Wrote the poem thats at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty  
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First thing immigrants saw when they entered the U.S.   Statue of Liberty  
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Ellis Island   Place where health examinations were done before entering the United States  
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Angel Island   Place where Asians entered the United States  
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Where most Immingrants were from in early 1800's   Northern and Western Europe  
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Where immigrants were from in late 1800's   Southern and Easter Europe, Asia, and Latin America.  
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Ethnic Group   A group of people who share a common culture  
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Assimilation   Process of becoming part of another culture  
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Reasons immigrants weren't liked   Took jobs for low pay,  
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Chinese Exclusion Act   Barred immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years after a sweep of chinese came to work on railroads  
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Tenements   Small apartments that held lots of people in cities.  
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Groups that helped in cities   YMCA, Salvation Army, settlement houses, and YWCA  
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settlement house   A community center that offers services to the poor.  
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Frederick Law Olmsted   Planner of Central Park  
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James Naismith   Inventer of basketball  
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Vaudeville   A variety show that included comedians, song and dance routines, and acrobats  
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Ragtime   A new kind of music with a lively, rhythmic sound  
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William Randolph Hurst   Bought the New York Journal and wrote stories about scandals  
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Yellow Journalism   Sensation reporting style (focuses on scandals)  
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Dime Novels   Low priced paperback books that told thrilling stories  
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Horatio Alger   Wrote stories about rags to riches  
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Realists   People who showed life as it really was  
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Hamlin Garland   Wrote stories about farmers  
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Jack London   Stories about miners and sailors hardships  
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Mark Twain   Wrote stories, real name was Samuel Clemens  
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Winslow Homer   Drew battle scenes for magazines  
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Thomas Eakins and Henry Taner   Drew human bodies and surgeries, Henry drew black sharecroppers  
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Mary Cassatt   Painter who drew mothers with their children  
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Patronage   Giving jobs to loyal supporters  
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Rutherford B. Hayes   President who tried to end the spoils system by not using it  
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James Garfield   President who called for reform of civil service  
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Civil Service   Includes all federal jobs except elected positions and the armed forces  
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Civil Service Commission   Filled out jobs in federal government, made of both parties, test given and highest scores won  
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Interstate Commerce Act   Passed by Grover Cleveland to forbade pools and rebates  
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Interstate Commerce Commission   Oversaw the railroad industry, not very powerful but tried  
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Sherman Antitrust Act   Prohibited trusts and buisneess' from limiting their competition  
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Upton Sinclair   The author of the book, The Jungle  
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Progressive Era   The era in which many changes were made to better the public  
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Public Interest   Good of the People  
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Robert La Follette   Governer of Wisconsin, introduced programs for reformers, lowered railroad rates, started the Wisconsin idea  
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Primary   Voters choose their party's candidate from among several people  
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Initiative   Gave voters the right to put a bill directly before the state legislature.  
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Referendum   Gave voters the power to make a bill become law  
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Recall   Allowed voters to remove an electric official from office.  
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Sixteenth Amendment   Gave Congress the power to impose an income tax  
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Seventeenth Amendment   Allowed direct election of senators  
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Theodore Roosevelt   President after McKinley, called the trustbuster  
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The buisness broken up by Roosevelt   American Tobacco Company and Standard Oil  
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trustbuster   Person who wants to destroy trusts  
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Square Deal   Promised by Roosevelt, means that different groups all have an equal opprotunity to succede  
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Pure Food and Drug Act   Passed by Roosevelt, required food and drug makers to list all ingredients on the packages  
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Conservation   The protection of natural resources  
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Roosevelt and Taft connection   Roosevelt got Taft to follow after him and do as he was doing, Taft passed some laws Progressives didnt like so Roosevelt ran against him  
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Bull Moose   Name of Roosevelts party when he ran again  
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Democrats choice to run against Roosevelt was...   Woodrow Wilson, won it because Republicans had split in 2  
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New Freedom   From Widrow Wilson, wanted to break trusts into smaller companies to restore competition  
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Federal Reserve Act   Passed by Congress to limit banking  
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Federal Trade Commission   Had power to investigate companies and stop them from using unfair buisness practices  
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4 States women gained right to vote in   Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming  
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Carrie Chapman Catt   A suffragists who became head of Nation American Woman Suffrage Association  
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Suffragists   People who campaigned for women's right to vote  
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Alice Paul   Helped British and American women and was spokesperson for the women, was put in jail  
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19th Amendment   Gave women the right to vote  
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Carry Nation   Fought against alcohol  
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18th Amendment   Made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks in the US  
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Ida B. Wells   Journalist who protested to black killings  
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Booker T. Washington   A black who stressed living in harmony with whites  
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)   Formed by Jane Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Lincoln Steffens to gain equal rights for blacks  
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Gentlemen's Agreement   Japanese agreed to limit # of workers entering the United States in return for the wives to join their husbands in the U.S.  
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barrios   Mexican neighborhoods  
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