EraImmigration

Political Corruption

Cities Reforms Education

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A term for immigrants who came to the U.S before the 1880s

Old Immigrants

A term for immigrants who traveled to the U.S after the 1880s

New Immigrants

An Island in NYC, many immigrants have come through this place of entry

Ellis Island

An Act banning Chinese immigration in 1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

Percent of the population that was foreign born by 1890

15%

Term for corrupt politicians often at the city level

“Bosses”

Famous head quarters for the democratic party in NYC

Tammany Hall

Well known, corrupt, political “boss” of New York City Democrats

“Boss” William Tweed

A term used to describe “legitimate” profits made by political machines

Honest Graft

Tammany Hall politician who believed in “honest graft” and who said he what he did for the community was “It’s Philanthropy, but its politics too- mighty good politics”

George Washington Plunkitt

This form of transportation helped to grow city limits and to move people within these cities

Cable Cars

The term for large housing complex's, often in poor condition, which were home to many immigrants

Tenements

These two city institutions were the most important places for many immigrant families

Places of Worship and Schools

By 1900 what third of people in the us lived in cities

1/3rd

This architect helped to invent the “skyscraper” and was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright

Louis H. Sullivan

A group which worked to eliminate corruption in politics, included Thomas Nast and George William Curtis

Mugwumps

Group of religious women committed to outlawing alcohol, led by Francis E. Willard

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

This man was a famous attorney who rejected social Darwinism and who was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

Clarence Darrow

This man formed the Society for the Suppression of Vice in NYC, Congress even passed a moral law named after him

Anthony Comstock

Wrote How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Jacob Riis

This Supreme Court case segregated America by race

Plessy v. Ferguson

This series of educational books has been in use since 1836 and 100 million copies were sold in the second half of the 19th century

McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers

This African American Educator served as the first president of the Tuskegee Institute

Booker T. Washington

A brilliant African American sociologist and civil rights leader who graduated from Harvard and who wrote The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B Du Bois

This Institute founded in 1861 focused on science and engineering and displayed the shift in education from a strict curriculum to a more research and practical based system

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Final Jeopardy Topic

American Reform Literature

This novel written by Edward Bellamy promoted the idea of a socialist utopia

Looking Backward 2000-1887