Module 13 Flashcards
Ellis Island
Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East Coast
Angel Island
Inspection station for immigrants arriving in the West Coast
Melting pot
A mixture of different cultures and races who blended together
Nativism
Obvious favoritism toward native-born Americans
Chinese Exclusion Act
Act that limited Chinese immigration
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Agreement in which Japan agreed to limit unskilled workers from emigrating to the U.S. if U.S. repealed the San Francisco segregation order
Political machine
A group that controlled a political party
Graft
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain
Boss Tweed
Head of New York City’s powerful Democratic poltical machine
Patronage
The giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidatw get elected
Civil Service
Government administration
Civil Service
Government administration
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th president of the United States
James A. Garfield
20th president of the United States
Chester A. Arthur
21st President of the United States
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Act that impemended merit system in civil service hiring
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th president of the United States
Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the United States
Ashcan School
A school of painting that featured urban life and working people with gritty realism
Pragmatism
School of philosophical thought that developed in the 1870s
Mark Twain
Pen name if the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemons
Joseph Pulitzer
Owner of the New York World Newspaper
William Randolph Hearst
Owner of the New York Morning Journal and the San Francisco Examiner
Rural free delivery
System that brought packages directly to homes
