42 Vocab Cards Flashcards
Melting Pot
A place where a multitude of people, cultures, or individuals assimilate into a whole.
Nativism
The plicy of protecting the intervests of a native-born or established inhabitants against the interests of immigrants.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law prohibiting all immigrants of Chinese laborers.
Ellis Island
Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States.
Tenements
A house divided into and rented out as residences, especially one that is run down and overcrowded area.
Urbanization
The process of moving from a rural area to a more urban area.
Slums
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of bad quality and is often associated with poverty.
Suburbs
An outlying district of a city.
Immigration Act 1917
An act that was meant to limit immigration by forcing immigrants to take literacy tests.
New Immigrants
Immigrants who migrated in the late 1800’s.
Old Immigrants
The groups of immigrants that came from 1820-1890. Mostly protestant. Northern and Central Europe (England and Germany).
Assimilate
To take in information and ideas from another culture.
Angel Island
San Francisco Bay. A United Wtates immigration station in California.
Immigrate
To live permanetly in a foreign country.
Emigrate
The process of immigrating. You have not settled down yet.
Muckrakers
A group of American writers that writes about political econimc corruption and social hardships that are caused by big businesses.
16th Amendment
Allowed congress levy a income tax without basing it on the population per state. Passex in 1909.
Social Welfares
Programs that assisted the porr and unemployed. Includes healthcare, empowerment, and housing.
Tust Busting
Government actions that aimed at breaking monopolies and trusts.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Passed in 1890. Prohibited contract, conspiracy, or combination of businesses. Didn’t allow trusts.
17th Amendment
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.
18th Amendment
Made it illegal to make, sell, of transport alcohol. Did not make it illegal to drink alcohol, though.
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote.
Hull House
The first settlement house in America. Founded by Jane Addams. Inspired others to make their own settlement houses.
Push Pull Factors
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.
Jacob Riis
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.
