Immigration

Question 1

Booker T. Washington

Answer 1

believed former slaves should focus on a vocational education

Question 2

Jane Addams

Answer 2

founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago

Question 3

Nativism

Answer 3

belief that America should be for native-born Americans only

Question 4

Charles Darwin

Answer 4

created the theory of evolution based on natural selection

Question 5

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 5

author of the Gospel of Wealth

Question 6

Mark Twain

Answer 6

coined the phrase, “The Gilded Age,” in reference to age of industry

Question 7

Jacob Riis

Answer 7

author of How the Other Half Lives

Question 8

Boston

Answer 8

location of first subway station

Question 9

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 9

created the standard of “separate but equal”

Question 10

Push Factor

Answer 10

a reason for immigrants to leave their home country

Question 11

Pull Factor

Answer 11

a reason for immigrants to come to the United States

Question 12

Populists

Answer 12

supported currency based on a silver standard

Question 13

Ellis Island

Answer 13

entry point into the United States for western Europeans

Question 14

Ida B. Wells

Answer 14

she was driven out of Memphis for her editorials on lynching

Question 15

John Dewey

Answer 15

supported public education for immigrants to assimilate into US culture

Question 16

Social Darwinism

Answer 16

the belief that those with the most money were the most “fit”

Question 17

Political Machine

Answer 17

organizations linked to political parties that often controlled the local government

Question 18

W.E.B. Dubois

Answer 18

supported an academic education for African Americans

Question 19

Central & Eastern Europe

Answer 19

regions where the new wave of immigrants came from