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History 1302

Week Four Assignment

1. Before 1880, most immigrants were from ________________________and ______________________ Europe.

2. After 1890, most foreign immigrants were _____________________ and__________________________.

3._______________________saw immigrants as a threat to theAmerican way of life.

4. The American Protection Association sought to keep immigrants outof mainstream society through restrictions on immigration, morestringent naturalization requirements, workplaces that refused toemploy aliens or Catholics, and the teaching of the American________________________ in the schools.

5. The _____________________ suffered more from immigrationrestriction than any other people group.

6. Middle-and upper-class urban Americans in the nineteenth centuryspent much of their leisure time involved in activities that revolvedaround the ___________________________.

7. The most popular and the most diverse form of theatricalentertainment in the late nineteenth century was_____________________.

8. Saloons are considered by many to have been largely arenas fordrinking and socializing. But according to your textbook, man of thesaloons were also considered to be in effect ____________________________ ________________________ because theyoffered a haven and fellowship to people who worked long days andlong work weeks.

9. For many in urban America in the late nineteenth century, the___________________________ were the prime location for outdoorentertainment due to cost restraints.

10. Most women who engaged in recreational activity in thenineteenth century were ____________________________.

11. Basketball was invented by Dr. _________________________________________________________ in 1891 at a Men Christians Associationin the state of Massachusetts.

12. The father of organized baseball is known as ________________________ _________________________.

13. Settlement house workers often focused on______________________________, that is to say the practical needs ofthe poor, when attempting to help those in need.

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14. One of the big reasons that womens employment ratesskyrocketed in comparison to previous decades in the latenineteenth century was due to fact that the _____________________work and _____________________ jobs became more attainable forwomen.

15. Between 1887 and 1897, the efforts by state and territorial governments to protectworkers were hindered by ________________________________________________________________.

16. _______________________ __________________________________brought to the Whitehouse a new styleof uprightness, in sharp contrast to the graft and corruptionpracticed by members of the Grant administration.

17. The __________________ were a faction of the Republican Partythat supported the spoils system during the administration ofRutherford B. Hayes.

18. The Pendleton Civil Service Act provided for appointment to a number of governmentjobs on the basis of _______________________ __________________________.

19. The assassination of James Garfield led to ____________________________________________________ becoming President.

20. The mongrel tariff of 1883 was so named because of its different rates for_______________________ ____________________________.