Chapter 15-Urban America Flashcards
Immigrants were required to undergo _____ when arriving at Ellis Island.
medical exams
The _____ prevented many Asians from becoming citizens in the late 1800s.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Most immigrants who came to American cities and worked in factories believed ____
that their lives had significantly improved from their lives in their native countries
_____ believed that individuals should be motivated to improving their selves and their own societies.
Social Darwinists
After _____ most immigrants to the US were from South and East Europe
1880s
in the 1860s, most Chinese immigrants were working for ___
western railroads
Most _____ opposed immigrants because the would work for low wages
labor unions
Before 1880s, most mass transit systems in cities were ____.
horse car systems
_____ were able to move most mass transit systems underground.
Subways
most inhabitants of streetcar suburbs were from the ____ class.
middle class
_____ was a corrupt leader of Tammany Hall Political Machine in New York City in the 1860s.
William Marcy Tweed
The Gospel of Wealth was _____’s belief that the wealth were supposed to use their fortunes for the benefit of all society.
Andrew Carnegie
In many large cities like Chicago, the _____ were the social hubs of society and politics.
Saloons
Most immigrants tended to settle in ____ within many large cities where they retained close relationships with their cultures
Ethnic Neighborhoods
_____ wanted to limit immigration to America
nativists
____ was the most famous political machine
Tammany Hall
_____ provided new city immigrants with jobs, housing, protections in exchange for political support in elections.
political machines
_____ is the belief that you can use your talents to improve yourself in society both socially and economically
individualism
____ were the organization that helped the urban poor
salvation army
many of the urban poor lived in ____
tenement houses
_____ was a promoter of public libraries
Andrew Carnegie
Frank Lloyd Wright’s job was ___
an architect
Hannah Hayye was an example of _____.
an immigrant from poland
William Sumner was a ____
professor who believed in the capitalist system
_____ established Henry Street House
Lillian Wald
_____ developed natural selection and evolutionary theory
Charles Darwin
____ believed in society’s progressed because only the fittest people survived.
Herbert Spencer
____ believed that those who had great wealth owed society something in return.
Andrew Carnegie
He was also known as Mark Twain
Samuel Clemmens
His American novel was Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
____ founded Tuskegee Institute for African Americans
Booker T. Washington
_____ opened Hull House in Chicago to aid poor immigrants
Jane Addams
____ published a book describing a perfect society in the year 2000 called “Looking Backward”
Edward Bellamy
