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Chapters 20 and 21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Push factors | Conditions that drive people to leave their homes |
| Pull Factors | Conditions that attract people to a new area |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Emma Lazarus | Wrote the poem thats at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty |
| First thing immigrants saw when they entered the U.S. | Statue of Liberty |
| Ellis Island | Place where health examinations were done before entering the United States |
| Angel Island | Place where Asians entered the United States |
| Where most Immingrants were from in early 1800's | Northern and Western Europe |
| Where immigrants were from in late 1800's | Southern and Easter Europe, Asia, and Latin America. |
| Ethnic Group | A group of people who share a common culture |
| Assimilation | Process of becoming part of another culture |
| Reasons immigrants weren't liked | Took jobs for low pay, |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Barred immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years after a sweep of chinese came to work on railroads |
| Tenements | Small apartments that held lots of people in cities. |
| Groups that helped in cities | YMCA, Salvation Army, settlement houses, and YWCA |
| settlement house | A community center that offers services to the poor. |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | Planner of Central Park |
| James Naismith | Inventer of basketball |
| Vaudeville | A variety show that included comedians, song and dance routines, and acrobats |
| Ragtime | A new kind of music with a lively, rhythmic sound |
| William Randolph Hurst | Bought the New York Journal and wrote stories about scandals |
| Yellow Journalism | Sensation reporting style (focuses on scandals) |
| Dime Novels | Low priced paperback books that told thrilling stories |
| Horatio Alger | Wrote stories about rags to riches |
| Realists | People who showed life as it really was |
| Hamlin Garland | Wrote stories about farmers |
| Jack London | Stories about miners and sailors hardships |
| Mark Twain | Wrote stories, real name was Samuel Clemens |
| Winslow Homer | Drew battle scenes for magazines |
| Thomas Eakins and Henry Taner | Drew human bodies and surgeries, Henry drew black sharecroppers |
| Mary Cassatt | Painter who drew mothers with their children |
| Patronage | Giving jobs to loyal supporters |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | President who tried to end the spoils system by not using it |
| James Garfield | President who called for reform of civil service |
| Civil Service | Includes all federal jobs except elected positions and the armed forces |
| Civil Service Commission | Filled out jobs in federal government, made of both parties, test given and highest scores won |
| Interstate Commerce Act | Passed by Grover Cleveland to forbade pools and rebates |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | Oversaw the railroad industry, not very powerful but tried |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | Prohibited trusts and buisneess' from limiting their competition |
| Upton Sinclair | The author of the book, The Jungle |
| Progressive Era | The era in which many changes were made to better the public |
| Public Interest | Good of the People |
| Robert La Follette | Governer of Wisconsin, introduced programs for reformers, lowered railroad rates, started the Wisconsin idea |
| Primary | Voters choose their party's candidate from among several people |
| Initiative | Gave voters the right to put a bill directly before the state legislature. |
| Referendum | Gave voters the power to make a bill become law |
| Recall | Allowed voters to remove an electric official from office. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | Gave Congress the power to impose an income tax |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Allowed direct election of senators |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President after McKinley, called the trustbuster |
| The buisness broken up by Roosevelt | American Tobacco Company and Standard Oil |
| trustbuster | Person who wants to destroy trusts |
| Square Deal | Promised by Roosevelt, means that different groups all have an equal opprotunity to succede |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Passed by Roosevelt, required food and drug makers to list all ingredients on the packages |
| Conservation | The protection of natural resources |
| 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 |
| Bull Moose | Name of Roosevelts party when he ran again |
| Democrats choice to run against Roosevelt was... | Woodrow Wilson, won it because Republicans had split in 2 |
| New Freedom | From Widrow Wilson, wanted to break trusts into smaller companies to restore competition |
| Federal Reserve Act | Passed by Congress to limit banking |
| Federal Trade Commission | Had power to investigate companies and stop them from using unfair buisness practices |
| 4 States women gained right to vote in | Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | A suffragists who became head of Nation American Woman Suffrage Association |
| Suffragists | People who campaigned for women's right to vote |
| Alice Paul | Helped British and American women and was spokesperson for the women, was put in jail |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote |
| Carry Nation | Fought against alcohol |
| 18th Amendment | Made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks in the US |
| Ida B. Wells | Journalist who protested to black killings |
| Booker T. Washington | A black who stressed living in harmony with whites |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| barrios | Mexican neighborhoods |
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