Immigrants

Question 1

james naismith

Answer 1

created basketball

Question 2

william booth

Answer 2

made the ymca, salvation armys

Question 3

mother cabrini

Answer 3

part of religious institutions, made 70 hospitals

Question 4

macys

Answer 4

1st department store, able to buy many items under one roof

Question 5

william randolph hearst

Answer 5

Ny journal, wrote about scandals, crime and gossip

Question 6

yellow journal

Answer 6

exaggerated stories

Question 7

joseph pulitzer

Answer 7

ny world, made comic strips, slashed prices

Question 8

nellie bly

Answer 8

found out the treatment of mentally ill, led to reforms

Question 9

john philip sousa

Answer 9

marching band music, stars and stripes forever

Question 10

samuel clemens

Answer 10

famous author, used local color to make stories more interesting

Question 11

scott joplin

Answer 11

ragtime music

Question 12

paul laurence dunbar

Question 13

jacob riis

Answer 13

photographer, wrote “how the other half lives” took pics of tenements and hardships of immigrant life

Question 14

jane addams

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made a settlement to help poor people, hull house, old mansion

Question 15

emma lazarus

Answer 15

wrote whats on the statue of liberty

Question 16

steerage

Answer 16

area below the deck, where immigrants rode to come to america, poor conditions

Question 17

ethnic neighborhoods

Answer 17

neightborhoods of people with the same origin and religion

Question 18

yellow journalism

Answer 18

exaggerated stories

Question 19

assimilation

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adopting to a new culture

Question 20

acculturation

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holding onto your culture while learning a new one

Question 21

hull house

Answer 21

helped european immigrants assimilate

Question 22

old immigrant

Answer 22

immigrants before 1885, northern and western europeans

Question 23

new immigrants

Answer 23

immigrants after 1885, southern and eastern

Question 24

ellis island

Answer 24

registration place for europeans

Question 25

angel island

Answer 25

registration place for asians

Question 26

tenements

Answer 26

small apartments, few windows, heat, and plumbing in individual rooms

Question 27

nativists

Answer 27

wants to limit immigration, white anglo-saxon protest

Question 28

melting pot theory

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theory that american culture is many cultures combined

Question 29

vaudevilles

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variety show with conedy, acrobatics,and music

Question 30

progrom

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organized attacks on jewish villages

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xenophobic

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fear of forgieners

Question 32

six second inspection

Answer 32

eye flip, tested for disease

Question 33

push, pull factors

Answer 33

reasons why people left their home countries

Question 34

acts used to limit immigration

Answer 34

gentlemans agreement, literacy tests, emergency quota act, national origins act

Question 35

ragtime

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lively, rythmic, music

Question 36

mclures/mcalls magazines

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specialty magazines

Question 37

subways

Answer 37

made travel more convenient, cleaned up nyc

Question 38

central park

Answer 38

escape for mental health and a place where people can relax

Question 39

ymca

Answer 39

helped people assimilate, held programs after school

Question 40

scyscrapers

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building upward, saves space, made of steel, cement, and brick,

Question 41

elevators

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allowed people to reach higher floors in scyscrapers

Question 42

qhat were the two registering centers used to come to america

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angel and ellis island

Question 43

where did old and new immigrant originate

Answer 43

old-northern and western, new-southern and eastern