American History Flashcards
Gilded Age
Cash Crop
Agricultural crop that is grown to be sold for a profit
Mass culture
Similar cultural patterns throughout a society
Dirty streets water
Creation of sanitization units
Large cities of people
Creation of street cars
High rates of crime
Creation of a police force
Tenements
Multistory buildings divided into apartments and residents as possible
Suburbs
Smaller communities on the outside of cities, like towns
Rural
Land that is farm-like or on the countryside
Urbanization
The expansion and creation of cities
Southern and eastern europe
Catholic, jewish
In the city, worked in factories
Chinese, italian, polish
Different than european americans
New
North and western europe
Mostly protestant
In the country were farmers
Mostly english
Like european americans
Old
What was the “purpose” of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
“The Act was a “response to racism [in America] and to anxiety about threats of cheap labor”
What types of people were allowed into the United States based on the 1790 Naturalization Act?
Citizen ship was limiting to white people no immigration restrictions.
Based on the “Immigration of the United States” chart, how has the United States felt about Immigration in the past?
The us has focused on limiting the immigration of people who are undesirable
Johnson Immigration Act
Imposed first permanent quota system
Imposed yearly cap on immigrants at 150,000
Immigration Act of 1903
Added four classes of people not allowed citizenship: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars and importers of prostitutes
1891
Immigration Act of 1891
Immigration Bureau directed to deport unlawful aliens
Chinese Exclusion Act
Restricted immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
No Chinese could become citizens
Began the idea of “illegal immigration” (in America)
The Act was a “response to racism [in America] and to anxiety about threats of cheap labor
Page Act of 1875
The first federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered as “undesirable”
The law classified “undesirable” as any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a contract laborer (railroad worker, etc.)
Naturalization Act of 1790
Established the rules for citizenship, but placed no restrictions on immigration. Citizenship was limited to white persons.
Americanization
Belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them loyal citizens
Classism
Prejudice against those of lower social classes
Nativism
Prejudice against immigrants
Immigration
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country
