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Unit 7
Immigration and Urbanization chapters 15 & 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Addams | created Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago to help immigrants. She also received the Nobel Peace Prize |
| Boss Tweed | leader of Tammany Hall the political machine that controlled the Democratic party in NYC, he went to prison for stealing money from the city |
| Mark Twain | famous author who coined the phrase, The Gilded Age for this time period |
| Thomas Nast | political cartoonist who helped expose the corruption of Boss Tweed |
| Andrew Carnegie | industrialist who made his millions in the steel business |
| J.P. Morgan | business/banking tycoon who was one of the wealthiest men alive & created the first billion dollar US Steel Corp in America |
| Booker T. Washington | African American leader who stressed hard work and education to achieve advancement |
| James Garfield | assassinated President, succeeded by his VP Chester A. Arthur |
| James Garfield | president plagued with the problems of the spoil system and killed by an insane disappointed office seeker |
| Wright Brothers | built the Wright glider and achieved flight at Kitty Hawk, NC |
| Ellis Island | immigration station in New York harbor where immigrants had to go through a variety of inspections, including the dreaded medical inspection, before entering America |
| Island of Hope | one of the many nicknames for Ellis Island |
| nativism | discrimination faced by immigrants |
| Angel Island | immigration station in San Francisco Bay |
| Laissez faire | government should stay out of the economy |
| social darwinism | justified social classes with the belief that poor are lazy and the rich are better |
| tenements | urban dwellings that were overcrowded and unhealthy |
| Gilded Age | period in America of growth and wealth but also corruption and abuse |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court Case that ruled that separate but equal was constitutional |
| 25th amendment | allows the VP to act as President if the President is unable to fulfill his/her duties |
| Civil Service Reform Bill | based job on one's merit determined through a qualifying exam |
| Jim Crow Laws | nickname of laws designed to deny African Americans rights |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| melting pot | metaphor for America which is a mixing of people of different cultures and races |
| political machine | organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city |
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