Gilded Age

Question 1

🔹 Immigration 🔹

Answer 1

🔹 Immigration 🔹

Question 2

Chinese

Answer 2

The mass emigration known as the Chinese Diaspora (19th century to 1949) was caused mainly by wars, starvation, and problems from political corruption in China.

Question 3

Italian

Answer 3

Began in the 1880s. Italians will see the Statue of Liberty and go through Ellis Island. Ellis Island became the central processing center for Italy. fewer Ital. immigrants than Irish. Most went to the big cities of the Northeast, NYC especially. Some went to the West coast, California.

Question 4

Eastern European Political Machines

Answer 4

Increase in Jobs, Tammany Hall helped democrats.

Question 5

Boss Tweed

Answer 5

William Tweed, head of Tammany Hall, NYC’s powerful democratic political machine in 1868. Between 1868 and 1869 he led the Tweed Reign, a group of corrupt politicians in defrauding the city.