1. VOCABULARY
Ellis Island – Located in New York. Entry point for most European immigrants
Angel Island – Located in San Francisco. Entry point for most Asian immigrants
Nativism – feeling that emerged in the late 1800s that people born on American soil are better than others.
Chinese Exclusion Act – Passed in 1882 to limit Chinese immigration to the US because immigrants were taking the factory jobs and the Chinese were the most different.
Tenements – a multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary. Family living space averaged 8X10 per family

2. VOCABULARY
22. Social Gospel Movement – reform movement of the late 19th century based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty
Political Machine – group that controls a political party in a city. They maintain power by trading services for political and financial support from the voters
Patronage – the practice of giving someone a job that has helped get you elected
Pendleton Civil Service Act – passed in 1883 ending patronage. Required people to pass a test for certain civil service jobs.
Tariff – a tax on imported goods

3. CHAPTER 7 IMMIGRATION
Old immigration
New immigration

4. Label your map
Compass Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean North America South America Europe Asia Africa Ellis Island Angel Island

5. Immigrants come to America
Push and Pull Factors

6. Get out your US map Locate and label Ellis Island
Locate and label Angel Island

7. Once in the US Immigrants would…
Live in…
Work in factories
Lower pay
Profits for owners
Congregate…
America the “Melting Pot”

8. Americans respond to influx by
Anti immigrant feelings spread
Nativism
The belief that people born on American soil are better than others.

9. The Government responds by
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement

11. URBANIZATION Opportunities Population Problems Housing - Tenements
Transportation
Lack of clean water
Sanitation
Crime
Fire

16. Addressing the problems
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives
Social Gospel Movement
Salvation through service to the poor
Gladden and Rauschenbusch
Settlement House Movement
Jane Addams and the Hull House

17. WEEK 2 JOURNAL 6
Jacob Riis learned about living conditions of the slums of New York while working as a newspaper reporter during the late 1800s. His photographs and writings about living conditions among the poor helped to bring about social reform.
1. In your own words, summarize what Jacob Riis is known for.
2. What type of journalist was Jacob Riis?

18. GILDED AGE
What does that mean?

19. Political Machines What are they? Immigrants Fraud and Graft
Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast

23. VOCABULARY
27. Booker T. Washington – believed African Americans would achieve equality if they developed a skill and became economically stable. Founded Tuskegee College
W. E. B. DuBois – First African American to graduate from Harvard. Believed African Americans must demand their equality
Poll Tax – $2 fee required in order to vote
Grandfather Clause – a provision that exempts certain people from a law on the basis of previously existing circumstances. (if your father or grandfather voted before 1867 you are exempt)
Jim Crow Laws – segregation laws
Plessy v. Ferguson – supreme court case that established the separate but equal concept and led to the Jim Crow Laws

24. WEEK JOURNAL 7
How do you think the introduction of mass transit systems, such as subways, and the construction of skyscrapers affect the demographics (population makeup) and layout of the turn of the century cities?
EXPLAIN AND SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER

25. Patronage and its results Spoils System
Presidents try to reform
Pres. Hayes and the Custom House
Garfield gets elected – pushes for change
Arthur is his VP
Mugwumps
Stalwarts
Garfield, Guiteau and Arthur
Pendleton Act
The Civil Service reform law that requires people to pass a test for certain government jobs

27. Big Business and Government
McKinley Tariff
Wilson Gorman Tariff
Grover Cleveland

28. Chapter 8- Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

29. Science and Urban Life Technology and City Life Skyscrapers
Louis Sullivan
Electric Transit
Street Car Suburbs
Steel Cables

30. Science and Urban Life New Technologies Printing Airplanes Photography
Wood pulp
Perfecting press
Fast – low cost
Airplanes
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Photography
George Eastman
Kodak

31. Descriptions need to be at least three sentences long!
WEEK JOURNAL 7
Write a brief description of life at the turn of the century.
Think about what is new, what are people doing,
where they are living, how they treat each other.
Descriptions need to be at least three sentences long!

32. Expanding Public Education
Elementary and High Schools
Discrimination
Immigrants
Higher Education for African Americans
Booker T Washington
Tuskegee University
W.E.B. Du Bois
Harvard
Niagara Movement

33. Segregation and Discrimination
Voting Restrictions
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
Grandfather Clause
Disenfranchised – Disfranchise
Jim Crow Laws
Lynching
Ida B. Wells
Discrimination in the North
African Americans believed
Plessy v Ferguson

34. Discrimination in the West
Mexican Workers
Chinese Immigrants

35. The Dawn of Mass Culture
Leisure
Amusement Parks
Coney Island
Sports
Music – Rag Time
Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag
The Spread of Mass Culture
Newspapers
Advertising
Standardization of society

37. How did the decision in the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court case affect life in the southern states?

38. People and Terms from 7-8 Chester Arthur Louis Sullivan
Grover Cleveland
Jane Addams
James Garfield
Settlement House
Angel Island
Political Machines
Ellis Island
Jacob Riis
Nativism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Social Gospel Movement
McKinley Tariff
Booker T. Washington
Gentlemen’s Agreement
WEB DuBois
Pendleton Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Boss Tweed