42 Vocab Cards

Question 1

Melting Pot

Answer 1

A place where a multitude of people, cultures, or individuals assimilate into a whole.

Question 2

Nativism

Answer 2

The plicy of protecting the intervests of a native-born or established inhabitants against the interests of immigrants.

Question 3

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 3

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law prohibiting all immigrants of Chinese laborers.

Question 4

Ellis Island

Answer 4

Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States.

Question 5

Tenements

Answer 5

A house divided into and rented out as residences, especially one that is run down and overcrowded area.

Question 6

Urbanization

Answer 6

The process of moving from a rural area to a more urban area.

Question 7

Slums

Answer 7

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of bad quality and is often associated with poverty.

Question 8

Suburbs

Answer 8

An outlying district of a city.

Question 9

Immigration Act 1917

Answer 9

An act that was meant to limit immigration by forcing immigrants to take literacy tests.

Question 10

New Immigrants

Answer 10

Immigrants who migrated in the late 1800’s.

Question 11

Old Immigrants

Answer 11

The groups of immigrants that came from 1820-1890. Mostly protestant. Northern and Central Europe (England and Germany).

Question 12

Assimilate

Answer 12

To take in information and ideas from another culture.

Question 13

Angel Island

Answer 13

San Francisco Bay. A United Wtates immigration station in California.

Question 14

Immigrate

Answer 14

To live permanetly in a foreign country.

Question 15

Emigrate

Answer 15

The process of immigrating. You have not settled down yet.

Question 16

Muckrakers

Answer 16

A group of American writers that writes about political econimc corruption and social hardships that are caused by big businesses.

Question 17

16th Amendment

Answer 17

Allowed congress levy a income tax without basing it on the population per state. Passex in 1909.

Question 18

Social Welfares

Answer 18

Programs that assisted the porr and unemployed. Includes healthcare, empowerment, and housing.

Question 19

Tust Busting

Answer 19

Government actions that aimed at breaking monopolies and trusts.

Question 20

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 20

Passed in 1890. Prohibited contract, conspiracy, or combination of businesses. Didn’t allow trusts.

Question 21

17th Amendment

Answer 21

Said that there would be two senators from each state. Each senator would serve for 6 years. They changed the rules from the state congress to elect their senators to the people directly voting for their senator.

Question 22

18th Amendment

Answer 22

Made it illegal to make, sell, of transport alcohol. Did not make it illegal to drink alcohol, though.

Question 23

19th Amendment

Answer 23

Gave women the right to vote.

Question 24

Hull House

Answer 24

The first settlement house in America. Founded by Jane Addams. Inspired others to make their own settlement houses.

Question 25

Push Pull Factors

Answer 25

Push: People realize that there are better benefits in another place and move there. Example: jobs, religous freedom, opportunities, and an overall better life.
Pull: Something that heppens where you live which makes you move. Example: persecution, oppressing, war, Government, and pogroms.

Question 26

Jacob Riis

Answer 26

Famous for writing the book How The Other Half Lives. The book explained how most of the people in New York were poor and had terrible conditions.