| A | B |
|---|
| a feeling that some people have that makes them dislike people of a different race or culture | prejudice |
| reason that the Chinese did not mine gold | they had to pay a special tax |
| reason that the US wanted to stop the Chinese from coming | they were worried that they would take away jobs from other Americans |
| laws that made life hard for Chinese immigrants | 1-higher state taxes 2-could not sue in state courts |
| where Mexican immigrants came to live | southwest |
| neighborhoods of people from Mexico | barrios |
| largest group of immigrants to come to the US | European |
| where ships bringing European immigrants landed | Ellis Island in New York's harbor |
| poorly built apartment homes where immigrants lived | tenaments |
| process of becoming a US citizen | naturalization |
| naturalization requirements | 1-live in the US 5 years 2-pass a history and government test 3-take an oath of allegience |
| African Americans who went west to Kansas after the Civil War | Exodusters |
| insect that destroyed cotton crops | boll weevil |
| reason why children were not educated in the South | they had to work in the fields all day |
| reason why African Americans went to northern cities during WWI | they were needed to work in factories |
| kind of life that African Americans found in the North | better; but still very poor |
| poblems of rapidly growing cities | disease and garbage, fire danger, crime |
| started the Hull House to help the poor | Jane Addams |
| services offered by the Hull House | 1-preschool 2-classes in English, sewing, cooking, campaigned to end child labor |
| built the first 10 story building in Chicago | William Jenny |
| form of transportation that helped people get to their jobs | horse drawn street cars (slow) |
| invented to cable car | Andrew Hallidie |
| invented an electric street car (trolley) | Frank Sprague |
| Congress passed a law that stopped this group of people from immigrating to the US | Chinese |
