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Immigration Unit
For Mrs. Martin's Nango Bears
Question | Answer |
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Muckrakers | expose harmful practices of business and government |
literacy tests | Designed to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | muckraker who exposed unsanitary conditions in meatpacking industry |
monopolies | limit competition |
Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Thomas Nast | muckrakers |
robber barons | capitalist business owners who use ruthless business practices |
Social Darwinism | the rich control the weak |
immigrants | contribute to the cultural diversity of the United States |
new immigrants | mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe |
quota system | limit the number of immigrants |
Ellis Island | opened by the US government to process immigrants arriving from overseas |
melting pot theory | different cultures will blend to form a uniquely American culture |
initiative | give citizens a more direct role in lawmaking |
referendum | gives citizens a more direct role in lawmaking |
tenements | unsafe apartments |
Dillingham Bill | law that restricts immigrants by country |
nativism | racism directed towards immigrants |
assimiliation | becoming more American (becoming similar) |
urbanization | movement from farm to city |
Plessy v. Ferguson | separate but equal |
Booker T. Washington | sought equality |
Ida. B. Wells | anti-lynching |
WEB Dubois | reject segregation |
progressivism | sought social reform |
16th Amendment | income tax |
17th Amendment | direct election of Senators |
18th Amendment | Prohibition |
19th Amendment | women's rights |
Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive President |
direct primary | voters choose candidates |
recall | vote officials out of office |
Jacob Riis | muckraker who photographed tenements |
Andrew Carnegie | Robber baron and philanthropist |