| A | B |
|---|
| Ellis Island | East Coast immigrant inspection station |
| Angel Island | West coast inspection station |
| culture shock | confusion and worry from experiencing a new culture |
| melting pot | a mixture of different culures living together |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | limited Chinese immigration |
| Gentlemen's Agreement | limited Japanese emigration to US |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| Americanization movement | Program to teach Am. Culture to immigrants |
| dumbbell tenement | apartment building, designed with airshafts |
| Social Gospel Movement | movement that preached salvation through helping the poor |
| Settlement house | Community center that addressed problems in slum neighborhoods |
| Jane Addams | social reformer who helped the poor |
| political machine | group that controlled a political party |
| graft | illegal use of political influence for personal gain |
| kickback | illegal payment of a portion of one's earnings to someone else |
| Tammany Hall | A powerful political machine in New York City |
| Tweed Ring | Group of corrupt politicians led by Boss William Marcy Tweed |
| Thomas Nast | Political cartoonist who ridiculed Boss Tweed |
| nativism | preference toward native born Americans |
| patronage | giving of govt jobs to supporters |
| civil service | the entire govt. administration |
| Pendleton Act | Act that implemented merit system in civil service hiring |
| contagious | tending to spread from 1 person to another |
| emigration | act of leaving a coutnry to settle in another |
| immigrate | to enter and settle in a new country |
| unsanitary | dirty, unhealthy |
| Stalwart | a person against change in the patronage system( part of the Rep. Party) |
| James Garfield | President who wanted reform and was shot just six months after taking office |
| Chester A. Arthur | President who succeeded Garfield |
| mugwump | a person who was opposed to the partronage system |
| Grover Cleveland | President who campaigned for lower taxes;only president to serve non-consecutive terms |
| Benjamin Harrison | raised tariffs;beat Cleveland in 1888;lost to Cleveland in 1892 |
| Gilded Age | period between 1870's and 1890's where the nation appeared healthy and strong but faced corruption and a widening gap between the rich and the poor |
