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a condition that drives people from their homeland

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push factor

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a condition that attracts people to move to a new area

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pull factor

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in Eastern Europe, an organized attack on a Jewish group

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pogrom

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on a ship, the cramped quarters for passengers paying the lowest fares

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steerage

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assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one

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acculturation

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an American who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants

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nativist

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1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the US

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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wrote “New Colossal” poem for Statue of Liberty

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Emma Lazarus

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island in the US where immigrants coming from the East coast came

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Ellis Island

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island in the US where immigrants coming from the west coast came

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Angel Island

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ethnic clusters

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ghettos

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started in 1879 soup kitchens and shelter

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Salvation Army

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young mens Christian association that provided a place for immigrants to live

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YMCA

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small apartments; few windows, no heat, no indoor bathrooms, very overcrowded

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tenements

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wrote the book “How the Other Half Lives” and was a photo journalist

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Jacob Riis

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movement of the population from farms to urban areas

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Urbanization

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a standard set by the government for building construction and safety

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Building code

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movement within American Protestantism in the late 1800s that attempted to apply biblical teachings to society’s problems

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Social Gospel

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a community center organized, beginning in the late 1800s to offer services to the poor

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settlement house

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settlement house founded by Progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago 1889

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Hull House

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founded the Hull House

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Jane Addams

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the practice of awarding government jobs to political supporters

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patronage

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all federal jobs except elected offices and those in the military

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Civil service

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a journalist who exposed corruption and bad business practices in the late 1800s and early 1900s

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Muckracker

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a reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s who wanted to improve American life

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progressive

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an election in which voters choose their party's candidate for the general election

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primary

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a person who wanted to destroy all trusts

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Trustbuster

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Roosevelt's campaign promise that all groups would have an equal opportunity to succeed

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Square Deal

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the protection of natural resources

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conservation

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a group of Progressive Republicans who supported Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 election

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Bull Moose Party

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Pres. Wilson's program to break up trusts and restore American economic competition

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new freedom

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a 1913 law that set up the Federal Reserve System to regulate the nation's financial sector

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Federal Reserve Act

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a government agency created in 1914 to ensure fair competition

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Federal Trade Commission

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became part of Teddy Roosevelt's cavalry

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rough riders

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women's right to vote

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suffrage

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the movement to ban alcohol production and sales in the US

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prohibition

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to illegally seize and kill someone

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lynch

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national association for the advancement of colored people and was set up to get equal rights

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NAACP

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a Mexican neighborhood in the US

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barrio

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reformer for the Suffrage movement

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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reformer for the suffrage movement

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Susan B. Anthony

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minister and doctor; reformer for the suffrage movement

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Anna Howard Shaw

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educator and newspaper edition who fought for women's rights

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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quaker and she started National Women's political party

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Alice Paul

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first woman to run for president

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Victoria Woodhull

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gave women the right to vote

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19th amendment

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Women's Christian Temperance Union

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WCTU

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spoke against alcohol and broke bottles in saloons

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Carrie Nation

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prohibited the sale of alcohol

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18th amendment

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1st female millionaire

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Madam CJ Walker

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co founder of NAACP and urged african americans to fight discrimination actively

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W.E.B Dubois

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a scientist at the Tuskegee Institute; founded over 300 uses for the peanut

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George Washington Carver

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tall buildings with many floors

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skyscraper

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residential areas near the outskirts of a city

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suburb

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were live variety that included comedians; song and dance and acrobats

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Vaudeville

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lively music

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Ragtime

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exaggerated type of news

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yellow journalism

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created the first modern, mass circulated newspaper

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Pulitzer

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"Mark Twain" wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Swayer"

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Sam Clemens