IMMIGRATION / GILDED AGE



IMMIGRATION / GILDED AGE / PROGRESSIVISM

Key Terms

In your notebook, define and explain each term’s significance to the time period in complete sentences.

Cultural Concepts / Events

1. “New Immigrants”

2. Angel Island

3. Anglo – Saxon

4. Compulsory Education

5. Ellis Island

6. Examples of the growth of sports / entertainment

7. Push / Pull Factors of the Great Migration

8. Settlement Houses

9. Tenements (Ghettos)

Resistance to New Immigration

10. Chinese Exclusion Act

11. Nativism

12. Quotas

Gilded Age

13. Patronage

14. Political Machines (“Tweed Ring”)

15. Tammany Hall

Political Reform

16. 16th Amendment

17. 17th Amendment

18. 18th Amendment

19. 19th Amendment

20. 20th Amendment

21. Bull Moose Party (Progressive)

22. Civil Service Commission

23. Clayton Anti - Trust Act

24. Federal Reserve

25. Progressive Presidents

26. Pure Food and Drug Act / Meat Inspection Acts

27. Women’s Suffrage Movement

28. Hepburn Act

29. Trustbusting

30. Muckrakers

KEY QUESTIONS

1. What social impact did the “new immigrants” have on American society? Where can we see it today?

2. Why did Nativists oppose unrestricted immigration in the late 19th/early 20th centuries?

3. How are immigration issues in America today similar and/or different from late 19th/early 20th centuries?

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