chapter four and five social studies Flashcards
A reason to leave country -war, famine, religion/politics
push factor
A reason to immigrate to a country -safety, freedoms, jobs
pull factor
cheapest ticket for a trip to America
steerage
Emma Lazarus
new coloses, “everyone is welcome”
ethnic groups stayed together -language, religion, culture
mosaics
settlement homes that tried to help, woman’s activist
Jane adams
Immigrants that were in the U.S first
nativists
Didn’t like the Irish because of jobs
Henry cabot Lodge
1882 Chinese exclusion act
Chinese are not in the U.S
Chinese great workers
most favored natives status
Unlimited migration
burlingame treaty
U.S would protect Japenese citizens if Japan would stop sending over
gentleman’s agreement
Building where people rented to live
tenement
people who wanted to expose society’s problems
muckrakers
“How the other Half Lives” flash powder photography
Jacob riis
addressing the poor living conditions in New York City’s tenement buildings.
tenement housing act
“The Jungle” meat packing in Chicago , meat inspection act makes taxes go up FDA
Upton sinclair
Political Machine
purely bad politicians
an elected leader picks people to do public jobs
spoils system
the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections.
merit system
Stated that Federal jobs should be granted on merit not on Friendship.
Pendleton Act
political machine in charge of tammany hall that stole millions from tax payers
“boss” Tweed
Boss Tweed elected his friends after election for public jobs ex.: inspector
Tweed Ring
Political cartoonist who was bribed $1M to leave but didn’t. Exposed Tweed
Thomas Nast
