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| What were reasons immigrants came to the US? | land shortages, famine, persecution |
| What are the two types of persecution people were escaping? | religious and political |
| Why did people come to temporarily to earn money? | American money had more value than their home countries money |
| What were the major two places immigrants came from? | Europe and Asia |
| What has allowed the trips to America to become shorter? | Advancements in technology for travel making it faster |
| What were the ethnic communities immigrants lived in called? | ghetto |
| Why did they want to find ethnic communities? | Felt comfortable in a foreign land |
| What was the major immigration spot in New York? | Ellis Island |
| What was the major immigration point on the West Coast? | Angel Island |
| To come into a country of which one is not native | Immigration |
| To leave a country | Emigration |
| Mixture of people of different cultrues and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs | Melting Pot |
| Explain the salad bowl analogy? | Each piece of the salad is independent in the the bowl they come together to make a salad |
| Favoritism toward native-born Americans | Nativism |
| What test did Congress pass the stop specific immigrants from coming to America? | Literacy test |
| Banned entry to all chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourist and government officials | Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
| What were the Chinese the only group excluded? | Easy to identify |
| Rapid growth of cities | Urbanization |
| Why were people moving to the cities? | Cheap housing and job opportunities |
| Designed to assimilate people into the dominant culture | Americanization movement |
| Merging of two cultures together | Assimilation |
| What did the government use to make the Americanization movement successful? | Schools |
| This movement of people into the cities caused what problem? | Overpopulation |
| List the five major problems caused by urbanization | Housing, Transportation, Water, Sanitation, Crime |
| Why was fire a problem? | Buildings built out of wood and close together allowed fire to spread |
| What were the two major fires during this time period? | Chicago fire and San Francisco fire |
| What was built to offer assistance to struggling immigrants? | Settlement houses |
| Who was the founder of the Hull House? | Jane Addams |
| What was her quality-of-life issue? | People were not paid enough to survive |
| Organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city | Political Machines |
| Who was the head of a political machine? | City boss |
| Who did the political machines target? | Immigrants |
| Illegal use of political influence for personal gain | Graft |
| Famous New York City boss? | Boss Tweed |
| Famous Kansas City boss | Tom Pendergast |
| Giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected | patronage |
| What President was killed over the patronage system? | Garfield |
| Commission would appoint federal jobs through a merit systme based on performance on an exam? | Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| What was the name of the political machine in New York? | Tammany Hall |
