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Immigrants and Urbanization

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Ellis Island   primary immigration station on the east coast  
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Angel Island   primary immigration station on the west coast  
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melting pot   mixture of people of different cultures and races blended together by abandoning native languages and customs  
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nativism   overt favoritism to one's home country  
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Chinese Exclusion Act   1882 Congressional Act banning entry to America for all Chinese who were not students, teachers, merchants, tourists, or government officials  
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Gentlemen's Agreement   agreement made by U.S. and Japanese officials limiting emigration of Japanese unskilled workers to the U.S. in exchange for repeal of the San Francisco segregation order  
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urbanization   growth of cities  
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Americanization Movement   social campaign designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture  
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tenements   often overcrowded and unsanitary multifamily urban dwellings  
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mass transit systems   transport systems designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes  
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Social Gospel Movement   reform program preaching salvation through service to the poor  
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settlement houses   community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area, especially immigrants  
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Jane Addams   one of the most influential members of the Settlement House movement who founded Chicago's Hull House in 1889  
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political machine   an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city  
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graft   the illegal use of political influence for personal gain  
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Boss Tweed   influential and corrupt leader of New York's Tammany Hall machine in the late 1860's  
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patronage   the giving of government jobs to people who have helped a political candidate get elected  
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civil service   government administration  
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James Garfield   U.S. president assassinated by a deranged office seeker; his death spurred the creation of the U.S. civil service  
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Pendleton Civil Service Act   created a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through a merit system based on examination, not patronage  
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