Chapter 18 Flashcards
- Push factors
What makes a person want to leave a place
- Urbanization
The migration of a person from rural areas to the city
- Pull factors
What makes someone want to come to a place
- Immigrants ghettos
Placed where immigrants would live after they had come to America
- Assimilation
The process of integrating through giving up ones old culture for a new one
- Nativism
The ideas that the only people who should be allowed in the country are white people from the mayflower
- Immigration restrictions league
Used tests to try and help stop and limit the flow of immigrants
- Central Park
Created to help make cities look nicer and allowed and escape
- City beautiful movement
The attempt to make cities nicer to live in
- Back bay
Landfill neighborhood in Boston
- Suburbs
Communities located on the out skirts of cities
- Tenements
Places where immigrants would live that often didn’t have windows
- Jacob Riis
Took pictures of people in tenements to help show how bad their living conditions were
- Mass transit
Help make commuting easier and cheaper
- Skyscraper
Buildings made possible due to the mass production of steel
- Pollution
Made due to coal burning in factories
- Public health service
charged with preventing occupational diseases
attempted to create common health standards for all factories
limited impact
established protection of public health as federal responsibility
- Boss rule
Immigrant politicians started to be able to have power over basic jobs
- Tammany Hall
political machine
George Washington Plunkitt
William M. Tweed
- Boss Tweed
an American politician most notable for being the “boss” of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State