Immigration & the Progressive Era Vocab.

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

When people adapt or change to fit into another culture. (Language, Dress, Traditions)

Question 2

Ellis Island

Answer 2

A federally-owned island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States. Form 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants were processed through Ellis Island.

Question 3

Immigrant Enclave

Answer 3

A community that has maintained strong ethnic or national identity, concentrated tightly within a specific neighborhood.

Question 4

Melting Pot Theroy

Answer 4

The idea is that the immigrants would accept American culture and ideas. The immigrants wouldn’t lose their heritage, but in everyday life they should “act” American.

Question 5

Muckrakers

Answer 5

Journalists who exposed probelms in business, goverment, and society in hopes of bringing about change.

Question 6

Nativism

Answer 6

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Question 6

Progressive Era

Answer 6

A time period when people exposed problems in business, government, and society in order to bring about change and reform.

Question 7

Pull Factor

Answer 7

A reason for leaving a certain area.

Question 8

Push Factor

Answer 8

A reason for going to a certain area.

Question 9

Reform

Answer 9

Changes and improvements to a law, social system, institution.

Question 10

Salad Bowl Theroy

Answer 10

This idea states that while immigrants do come to American, they do not, and should not lose their culture.

Question 11

Statue of Liberty

Answer 11

A copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.

Question 12

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 12

Passed in 1890 it was a landmark U.S law that banned businesses form merging to form a monopoly.

Question 13

Strike

Answer 13

When many workers stop working in protest. Strikes are usually done by a labor union to get better pay, hours, or working conditions.

Question 14

Tenement

Answer 14

A tenement was a run-down apartment building. The tenement in Old New York were barely safe enough to live in — fire hazards, no air ciculation, and no bedrooms, either.

Question 15

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Answer 15

The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers.

Question 16

Union

Answer 16

An organization of workers formed to protect the right of its members concerning wages, benefits, and working conditions.

Question 17

Urbanization

Answer 17

When large amounts of people move into the cities for available jobs and greater opportunity.