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2/13/23 Chapter Test Flashcards

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conditions that drive people from their homes

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Push Factors

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conditions that attract immigrants to a new area

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Pull factors

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an organized attack on a Jewish community in Russia

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Pogrom

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

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Steerage

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the process of adapting to a new culture and making changes while holding on to older traditions

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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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Nativists

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1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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she wrote a poem about the stature of liberty called “The New Colossus”

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Emma Lazarus

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where immigrants from the East Coast went for medical and financial examinations

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Ellis Island

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where immigrants from the West Coast went for medical and financial examinations

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Angel Island

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where immigrants of the same ethnic groups settled in clusters

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Ghettos

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a 1879 group who provided soup kitchens and shelter

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Salvation Army

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provided a place for immigrants to live

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YMCA Young Men’s Christian Association

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wrote “How the Other Half Lives” about the terrible conditions of tenements

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Jacob Riis

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movement of the population from rural areas (farms) to urban areas (cities)

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Urbanization

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small low budget apartments, few windows, no heat, no indoor bathrooms and was very overcrowded Building Codes set standards for construction and safety of buildings

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Tenement

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set standards for construction and safety of buildings

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Building Codes

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

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Social Gospel

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a house set up for the poor that provided for the immigrants

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Settlement house

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a settlement house that was set up by Jane Adams in 1889

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Hull House

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she set up the Hull House in 1889

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Jane Addams

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giving jobs to followers also known as the spoils system

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Patronage

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all federal jobs except elected officers and the military

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Civil service

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crusading journalists who exposed corruption to the public view

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Muckrakers

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1900 reformers - forward thinking people who wanted to improve American life

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Progressives

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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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Theodore 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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Roosevelt’s supporters after the Progressive Republicans split

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Bull Moose Party

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President 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 Comission

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the calvary organized by Theodore Roosevelt

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Rough Riders

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women’s right to vote (Seneca Falls New York)

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Women’s suffrage

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a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

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Prohibition

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to be murdered by a hateful mob

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Lynch

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an organization founded in 1909 to work toward equal rights for African Americans

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NAACP - (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

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a Mexican neighborhood in the United States

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Barrio

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a reformer who helped set up the National Women’s Suffrage Association and opposed the 15th Amendment

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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a reformer who also helped set up the NWSA and opposed the 15th Amendment

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Susan B. Anthony

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a minister and a doctor a reformer who fought for women’s rights

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Anna Howard Shaw

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an educator and newspaper editor

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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a Quaker who started the National Women’s Political Party in 1916 and was denied the support of President Wilson

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Alice Paul

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in 1872 she became the 1st woman to run for president and she wasn’t even 35 yet.in 1872 she became the 1st woman to run for president and she wasn’t even 35 yet.

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Victoria Woodhull

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it gave women the right to vote in 1920

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19th Amendment

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a women’s group that supported prohibiton established by Francis Wilard

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Women Christian Temperance Movement -WCTU

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spoke out against alcohol and broke bottles in saloons (bars)

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Carry Nation

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1919 it prohibited the sale of alcohol. (Women’s Temperance Movement)

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18th Amendment

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America’s 1st female millionaire (African American). She created a hair care line.

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Madam CJ Walker

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CoFounder of NAACP who 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 who found 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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a residential area near the outskirts of a city

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Suburb

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live variety that included comedians, song, dance, and aerobatic shows

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Vaudeville

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lively music (Scott Joplin)

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Ragtime

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sensational reporting - exaggerated type of news

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Yellow Journalism

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Created the first modern, mass circulated, newspaper. “New York World”

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Pulitzer

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Mark Twain - wrote the “Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” and the adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Sam Clemens

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