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Module 13 Flashcards

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Ellis Island

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Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East Coast

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Angel Island

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Inspection station for immigrants arriving in the West Coast

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Melting pot

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A mixture of different cultures and races who blended together

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Nativism

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Obvious favoritism toward native-born Americans

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Act that limited Chinese immigration

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Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Agreement in which Japan agreed to limit unskilled workers from emigrating to the U.S. if U.S. repealed the San Francisco segregation order

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Political machine

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A group that controlled a political party

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Graft

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Illegal use of political influence for personal gain

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Boss Tweed

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Head of New York City’s powerful Democratic poltical machine

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Patronage

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The giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidatw get elected

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Civil Service

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Government administration

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Civil Service

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Government administration

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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19th president of the United States

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James A. Garfield

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20th president of the United States

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Chester A. Arthur

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21st President of the United States

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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Act that impemended merit system in civil service hiring

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Grover Cleveland

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22nd and 24th president of the United States

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Benjamin Harrison

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23rd President of the United States

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Ashcan School

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A school of painting that featured urban life and working people with gritty realism

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Pragmatism

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School of philosophical thought that developed in the 1870s

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Mark Twain

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Pen name if the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemons

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Owner of the New York World Newspaper

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William Randolph Hearst

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Owner of the New York Morning Journal and the San Francisco Examiner

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Rural free delivery

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System that brought packages directly to homes

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