Ch.15

Question 1

Where had immigrants come from in Europe Pre 1890

Answer 1

Western and Northern Europe

Question 2

Why did many jews immigrate to the United States after 1890

Answer 2

For religious persecution-Jews escape from Russian Pogroms

Question 3

Some people came temporarily to earn money for their family and then return

Answer 3

“Birds of passage”

Question 4

Describe the steerage section of the ship in which most immigrants travelled from Europe

Answer 4

Near engine room, often near cattle, usually windowless, very bad food, disease spread quickly

Question 5

People from Europe usually landed where

Answer 5

Ellis island

Question 6

People from Asia usually landed where

Answer 6

angel island

Question 7

Proccess immigrants underwent before they were admitted to the country

Answer 7

inspection; inspector had 2 min 30 sec to ask questions

Question 8

Favoritism towards native born americans

Answer 8

Nativism

Question 9

Name 2 of these nativist groups

Answer 9

america protective

Ordaned star spangled banner

Question 10

Why did nativist object to Catholic and Jewish immigrants

Answer 10

Thought roman catholics and jews would undermined the democratic traditions of the US

Question 11

Banned the entry of all chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government

Answer 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 12

Who was the president that had a Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan over a segregation action by the San Francisco Board of Education

Answer 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 13

Growth of cities

Answer 13

urbanization

Question 14

The process of taking on the traits of an immigrants new culture

Answer 14

assimilation

Question 15

6 ways in which volunteers helped immigrants assimilate by what they taught

Answer 15

english, cooking, citizenship, American History, American Government, Social Etiquette

Question 16

Mutli-Family urban dwellings, overcrowded and unsanitary, originally built without withdraws

Answer 16

Tenement

Question 17

What two cities sustained great fires

Answer 17

Chicago

San Francsico

Question 18

Preached salvation through service to the poor

Answer 18

Social Gospel

Question 19

Community centers in slum neighborhoods

Answer 19

Settlement house

Question 20

who worked settlement houses

Answer 20

settlement house workers did

Question 21

Name of the settlement house established by Jane Addams and where was it located

Answer 21

Hull House-Chicago

Question 22

what was the function of a political machine in large cities in the early 19th century

Answer 22

An organized group that controlled the activities of the political party in the city

Question 23

Their job was to gain voters support on a city block or neighborhood

Answer 23

Precinct Worker and Captain

Question 24

Their job was to help the poor and needy, gained their votes by doing them favors

Answer 24

Ward Boss

Question 25

Their job was to control the political party thought the city

Answer 25

City Boss

Question 26

Boss of new york

Answer 26

Roscoe Conkling

Question 27

What good things did Roscoe Conkling do as the boss of a new York City

Answer 27

Build parks, sewer systems, water works, gave money to schools, hospitals, and orphanages

Question 28

How did people commit voter fraud under the party bosses

Answer 28

The use of fake names so party faithful could vote several times

Question 29

the illegal use of political influence for personal gain

Answer 29

Graft

Question 30

Kickback

Answer 30

The machine could ask the worker to bill the city for more than the actual cost of materials and labor, then kick back a portion of that to the machine

Question 31

What is patronage, who was the first president to formally use it, and what was the name of his program

Answer 31

giving government jobs to people who had to get a candidate elected.
Andrew Jackson
Spoils system, merit system

Question 32

Opposed to changes in the spoils system

Answer 32

stalwart

Question 33

why was president garfield assassinated

Answer 33

he gave most of his patronage to reforms making the stalwarts mad

Question 34

who assassinated garfield and where

Answer 34

Charles Guiteau

Washington, D.C, train station

Question 35

who succeeded garfeid and what was the civil service act that he supported

Answer 35

President Chester A Arthur, civil service commission

Question 36

Election of 1884

Answer 36

Dem: Grover Cleveland(winner)
Rep: James G Blaine

Question 37

Election of 1888

Answer 37

Dem: Grover Cleveland
Rep: Ben Harris (winner)

Question 38

2 new forms of mass transit in the late 1800s

Answer 38

Street cars

electric subways

Question 39

who was the principal author of The Gilded Age

Answer 39

Mark twain

Question 40

what did the gilded age describe

Answer 40

His characters find that getting rich quick is more difficult than they thought

Question 41

Why were city governments inefficient in the late 19th century

Answer 41

cities were receptive to a new power structure, the political machine, and new political, the city boss

Question 42

What were two “perks” that were controlled by the city boss

Answer 42

access to municaple jobs

and business licenses

Question 43

Who was the most notorious political boss in America history, where did he operated and what was his city

Answer 43

William M tweed
operated in Tammany Hall
New York City

Question 44

Who was the political cartoonist that helped to bring down tweed

Answer 44

thomas nast