IMMIGRATION TERMS

Question 1

Gilded Age

Answer 1

rapid industrialization from 1877 to 1900

Question 2

laissez faire

Answer 2

when government leaves businesses alone to figure things out

Question 3

Civil Service

Answer 3

system of nonelected government workers; you have to take and pass a test to get a job

Question 4

steerage

Answer 4

poor people occupy the lower level of the ship

Question 5

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 5

keeps the chinese people out of the country; quota (limits) system

Question 6

segregation

Answer 6

forced seperation

Question 7

ghetto

Answer 7

area where an ethnic or racial group occupy

Question 8

Political machine

Answer 8

corrupt methodd of re-electing politicians

Question 9

Nativism

Answer 9

movement to ensure benefits to native born americans

Question 10

teperance movement

Answer 10

organized campaign to outlaw alcohol

Question 11

vice

Answer 11

immoral or corrupt behavior

Question 12

prohobition

Answer 12

(1919) 18th amendment, legal ban on alcohol

Question 13

settlement house

Answer 13

community house that provided service to immigrants