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US History 10-11
civil Service and gilded age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Giving government jobs to political supporters is known as_____________. | Patronage |
| Another word for patronage is ________. | spoils system |
| Looks good on the outside but bad on the inside, like fool's gold is | Gilded |
| time period from 1860-1900 where the US experience industrialization and urbanization, new technologies, ect but also poverty, discrimination and crime | Gilded Age |
| Immigrants arriving from Europe were processed in New York at _____________ | Ellis Island |
| Those who failed__________would be sent home. | medical exams |
| Immigrants arriving from Asia crossed the Pacific and entered the US in California at ___________ | Angel Island |
| In the late 1800's, most immigrants arriving in the US came from _____________, called New Immigration | EAstern and Southern Europe |
| many of these new immigrants were ___________, which made many nativists fear the church gaining too much power in the govenrment | Catholic |
| people who were against immigrants and wanted to limit immigration were called | nativists |
| the most basic accomodations on a ship is called | steerage |
| when immigrants entered the US, amny settled in the cities in ___________ | ethnic neighborhoods |
| Who came to the US to work on the railroad and in hopes of striking it rich in the gold rush? | Chinese |
| Gaining money through illegal means | graft |
| Pull factors for the US | political participation, factory jobs, religious freedom, |
| Pull factors for cities | electricity, jobs, entertainment |
| PUll factors for Chinese immigrants | Gold rush and transcontinental railroad |
| What was the largest immigrant group? | German |
| What pushed the Irish from thier homeland? | Potato famine |
| Tammany Hall's corrupt leader (Democratic Political machine in NYC) | Boss Tweed |
| What resources did immigrants compete with the natives for? | jobs, land (remember acted as strikebreakers too) |
| Descibe city life. | crowded, polluted, rising crime rates, fire, diseases, gangs) |
| What reformed the patonage system by setting up a Civil Service Committee to administer examinations for candidates? | Pendleton Act (needed after assassination of Garfield) |
| What is civil service? | describes government jobs |
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