Immigration Exam Flashcards
Who believed that former slaves should focus on vocational education?
Booker T. Washington
Who supported public education for immigrants to assimilate in US culture?
John Dewey
Who was driven out of Memphis for her editorials on lynching?
Ida B. Wells
Who created the theory of evolution based on natural selection?
Charles Darwin
Who supported currency based on a silver standard?
populists
Who coined the phrase, “The Gilded Age,” in reference to the age of industry?
Mark Twain
Who wrote “How the Other Half Lives”?
Jacob Riis
What created the standard “separate but equal”?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Where was the first subway station location?
Boston
What is a reason for immigrants to leave their home country called?
push factor
What is a reason for immigrants to come to the United States?
pull factor
Who wrote “Gospel of Wealth”?
Andrew Carnegie
What was the entry point into the United States for western Europeans?
Ellis Island
What is the belief that America should be for native-born Americans only?
nativism
Who was the founder of Hull House?
Jane Addams
What was Hull House?
a settlement house in Chicago
What is the belief that those with the most money (wealth) were the most “fit”?
Social Darwinism
What was the entry point into the US for Asian immigrants?
Angel Island
What banned Asian immigrants from entering the US, starting in 1882?
the Chinese Exclusion Act
What was the slogan for nativism?
“America for Americans”
What did Andrew Carnegie state that it was the duty of the wealthy to allocate money for humanitarian efforts in?
the Gospel of Wealth
What were organizations linked to political parties that often controlled the local government called?
Unions
Who supported an academic education for African Americans?
Web DuBois
What were the laws created to separate whites from African Americans called?
Jim Crow Laws
