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Immigration
entry into a new nation for the purpose of permanent residence
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Ellis Island
- 20,000,000 visitors (1892-1924)
- closed in 1954
- chief immigration station in American
- In New York
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Angel Island
- 2nd largest immigration station
- in San Francisco
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Adjusting was difficult for new immigrants because
- culture shock
- homesickness
- loss of identity
- language barrier
- finding a place to live
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restrictive covenants
agreement among homeowners not to sell to certain groups of people
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benevolent societies
helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment and death
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nativism
Americans favoring native born Americans over immigrants
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress denied citizenship to people born in China and prohibited Chinese Immigration for 10 years from 1882-1892 then added another 10 year after
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Gentlemen's Agreement
1906 Japan agreed to stop issuing passports to their laborers
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Melting Pot
Mixing of Societies
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Immigration Restriction League
impose a literacy test on all immigrants
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Urbanization
movement of people from the country to the city
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Skycrapers
large multistory building
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Elisha Otis
developed the mechanized elevator
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Boston, Massachutes
first U.S. City to have a subway
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New York City, NY
first U.S. City to have an elevated railway
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San Francisco, California
First U.S. City to have a cable car
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Mass Transit
all forms of mass transportation
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Suburbs
residential neighborhoods on the out skirts of a city
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Tenements
poorly built apartments designed to house as many people as possible
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Jane Addams
- opened the first settlement house in Chicago called the Hull house in 1889
- taught basic social skills and orphans lived in the house
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Social Gospel
called for people apply Christian principles of social problems
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Five problems face cities in the New Industrial Ager
- Housing
- Transportation
- Water and Sanitation
- Fires
- Law and Order
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Political Machines
unofficial city organizations designed to keep a particular group or party in power
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Graft
the acquisition of money or power through illegal and dishonest methods
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Kickback
illegal payments for services or jobs
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Tweed Ring
Crooked people led by "Boss" Tweed in New York City in Tammany hall, also a political machine
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Thomas Nast
published more than 50 cartoons in Harper'S Weekly that sharply criticized Tweed and Tammany Hall
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Gilded Age
term coined by Mark Twain suggesting that a thin but glittering later of prosperity covered the poverty and corruption of much of society
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Patronage
the practice of giving jobs to those who help a candidate get elected
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Merit System
the job goes to the most qualified person
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Election of 1876
Winner- Rutherford B. Hayes - Republican
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Election of 1880
winner - James A. Garfield - Republican
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Charles Guiteau
shot James Garfield
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Chester Arthur
became President upon the assassination of James Garfield
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Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883
established the civil service commission to administer competitive examination to those seeking government jobs
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Election of 1884 and 1892
Winner - Grover Cleveland - democratic
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Election of 1888
winner - Benjamin Harrison - republican
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Louis Sullivan
designed the ten-story wainwright building in St. Louis
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Fredrick Olmsted
spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks and designed Central park
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George Eastman
introduced the Kodak camera
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Booker T. Washington
- founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881
- believed education was the key to economic indepenence
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George Washington Carver
best known instructor at Tuskegee
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W.E.B. Du Bois
- helped organize the NAACP in 1909
- fought for equality
- founder for the Niagara movement
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Poll Tax
Fixed taxes imposed on every voter
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grandfather clause
stated that if your grandfather voted before reconstruction then you could vote now
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segregation
separation of the race
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Jim Crow Laws
created to enforce segregation
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Plessy v. Ferguson
- 1896
- Supreme Court stated that the separate but equal concept was constitutional
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First Professional Baseball team
Cincinnati red stockings
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Debt Peonage
a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to an employer
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American Leisure Time was spent...
- Spectator Sports
- Bicycling
- Amusement parks
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Newspaper began using...
sensational story headlines
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Joseph Pulitzer
bought the New York World and introduced a large Sunday Edition, comics, sports, and women's news
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William Randolph Hearst
- owned the New York Morning Journal
- tried to outdo Pulitzer by filling it with exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism, and even an imaginary trip to Mars
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Marshall Fields
led the way in the creation of department stores
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Frank Woolworth
led the way in the creation of chain stores
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Rural free delivery (RFD)
- Sears and Roeback were the first
- Deliver anywhere to your house
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Progressivism
reform movement of the early 1900's concerned with problems of urbanization and industrialization
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Muckrakers
Journalist who uncovered the wrong doings on the parts of politicians or corporations
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Robert M. La Follette
from Wisconsin he led the way in regulating big business
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Initiative
gives voters the power to introduce legislature
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Referendum
citizens force legislature to place a recently passed law
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Recall
could remove a representative
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17th amendment
gave voters the power to elect their senators
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Election of 1896
Winner - William McKinley - republican
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Triangel Shirtwaist Fire
- deadliest industrial fire
- lead to occupational safety measures
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Reasons women were denied the right to vote
- Thought it would increase the divorce rate
- liquor and factory industry didn't want them to vote
- Not a women's place
- Didn't want to open the black voting rights
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19th amendment
gave women the right to vote
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Election of 1900
Theodore Roosevelt republican winner
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Square deal
Roosevlet's program for fair and treatment for everyone
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Six Major achievements of the square deal
- Increase in federal power
- mediate a coal strike
- regulating trust
- regulating transportation
- protecting our health
- protecting our environment
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Upton Sinclair
- In 1906
- Wrote a book called the Jungle Exposing the meatpacking Industry
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Meat Inspection Act
was passed in 1906 requiring the federal government to inspect meat shipped across state lines
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Pure Food and Drug Act
forbade the manufacturing, transportation, or selling of food and medical products containing harmful ingredients
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conservation
preserve the environment and resources
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Gifford Pinchot
was the named head of the Forestry Service in 1905
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Election of 1908
William Howard Taft republican winner
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
when Secretary of Interior Richard Ballinger fired Gifford Pinchot as Head of the Forestry Commission for criticizing the sale of land in Alaska
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Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson Democratic winner
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Clayton Antitrust Act
- 1914
- it clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust by clearly defining what a corporation could not do
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Federal trade commision
a federal trade agency established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices
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16th amendment
created income tax
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Federal reserve system
a national banking system that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country
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4 basic beliefs of progressives
- The government should...
- be more accountable to its citizens
- control the power and influence of the rich
- be involved in improvising the lives of citizens
- become more efficient and less corrupt
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