Western and Eastern Europe. England, Scotland, Ireland, wales, Germany. Mainly protestant.

From Southern and eastern Europe. 30% of major city residents were foreign born. Settled with people of same nationality.

Push and Pull factors

No affordable land. Religious persecution, pogroms. Mandatory military service. Poverty and disease.

The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group.

The belief that native inhabitants needs should be placed over immigrants.

Island in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan.

A large copper statue of a woman holding a torch aloft in her right hand located on Liberty Island in New York harbor.

Held 4000 people, 6-8 stories, no light or air, communal toilets outside, children played in the streets.

To provide educational and social opportunities for the poor in their communities.

the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering

Chinese Exclusion Act

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

Andrew Carnegie and Steel

An American industrial leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

John D Rockefeller and Standard oil

United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away

the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.

the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

An organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members interest in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.

Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees

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The Gilded age

Term	Definition
Old immigration	Western and Eastern Europe. England, Scotland, Ireland, wales, Germany. Mainly protestant.
New immigration	From Southern and eastern Europe. 30% of major city residents were foreign born. Settled with people of same nationality.
Push and Pull factors	No affordable land. Religious persecution, pogroms. Mandatory military service. Poverty and disease.
Assimilation	The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group.
Nativism	The belief that native inhabitants needs should be placed over immigrants.
Ellis Island	Island in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan.
Statue of Liberty	A large copper statue of a woman holding a torch aloft in her right hand located on Liberty Island in New York harbor.
Tenements	Held 4000 people, 6-8 stories, no light or air, communal toilets outside, children played in the streets.
Settlement houses	To provide educational and social opportunities for the poor in their communities.
Social Darwinism	the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
Laissez Faire	a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering
Chinese Exclusion Act	The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
Andrew Carnegie and Steel	An American industrial leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
John D Rockefeller and Standard oil	United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away
Vertical Integration	the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
Monopoly	the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
Capitalism	Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Labor Union	An organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members interest in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Arbitrations	Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees

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