Benchmark 2 review

What are the 4 reasons for immigration to the US?  Hope for better opportunities  Religious Freedom  Escape oppressive governments  Adventure

What was the entry point for immigrants in NYC?  Ellis Island

What was the entry point for immigrants in San Francisco?  Angel Island

What did the immigrants go through at Ellis and Angel Islands?  Registration  Background checks  Medical Exams

How have immigration patterns to the US changed since 1965?  Mostly Hispanics and Asians are coming to the US as immigrants

Why did cities develop?  Specialized industries  Immigration from other countries  Movement from rural to urban areas for job opportunities

What city is associated with each industry?  Meat packing  Chicago  Steel  Pittsburgh  Automobile  Detroit

What is industrialization?  Growth of factories and manufacturing

What is urbanization?  Growth of cities

What did industrialization and urbanization lead to in the US?  Overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements

What is a ghetto?  Poor run down ethnic neighborhood

What is a tenement?  Crowded urban apartment

Who was Jane Addams?  Progressive who started the Hull House

What did the Hull House (settlement house) offer immigrants?  Place to have baby sitting for the kids while Moms worked  English language lessons

What was the Temperance Movement?  Groups opposed to making and consuming of alcohol

What did the 18 th Amendment state?  Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages

What does the 19 th Amendment state?  Women have the right to vote (suffrage)

What is Susan B. Anthony known for?  Working tirelessly for women’s suffrage (right to vote)  19 th Amendment named for her

What are the workplace reforms of the Progressive Movement?  Improved safety conditions  Reduced working hours  Restrictions on child labor

What were political machines?  Organizations in cities that had a political boss  Wanted to win elections so they could run the city

How did political machines gain power?  Attending to needs of immigrants  corruption

What is exaggerated news reporting called?  Yellow Journalism

What US ship sank in the Havana, Cuba Harbor  USS Maine

What are the 4 reasons for the Spanish American War?  American support of Cuban rebels to gain their independence from Spain  Protection of American business interests in Cuba  Rising tensions as a result of the sinking of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor  Yellow Journalism

What are the three results of the Spanish American War?  The US emerges as a world power  Cuba gained independence from Spain  The US gains possession of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico

What countries were the 5 Allies during WWI?  Great Britain  France  Belgium  Serbia  Russia

What countries were the 4 Central Powers during WWI?  Germany  Austria-Hungary  Bulgaria  Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

What British ship was sunk by German submarines with US passengers aboard?  Lusitania

What are the 3 reasons the US became involved in WWI?  Inability to remain neutral  German submarine warfare-Lusitania  US economic and political ties to Great Britain

Who was the US President during WWI?  Woodrow Wilson

What did Wilson propose in his peace plan?  Formation of the League of Nations as a peace-keeping organization

What did the US decide about the League of Nations?  Not join and return to isolationism