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Chapter 10 Urban America
Ch. 10.1 Immigration
Ch. 10.3 The Gilded Age
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Steerage
Ellis Island
Jacob Riis
Angel Island
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Answer:
1. How did immigration affect demographic patterns in
the United States?
2. Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United
States?
3. Why did the federal government pass the Chinese
Exclusion Act?
Ch. 10.2 Urbanization
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Gilded Age
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Philanthropy
Realism
Vaudeville
Ragtime
Scott Joplin
Answer:
1. What was the main idea behind individualism?
2. What was the main idea of Social Darwinism?
3. What was the significance of Mark Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
4. What importance did the saloon have in the
nineteenth century?
Ch. 10.4 The Rebirth of Reform
Skyscraper
Louis Sullivan
Tenement
Political machine
Party boss
George Plunkitt
Graft
William “Boss” Tweed
Answer:
1. Why did rural Americans move to the cities in the
late 1800s?
2. What new technologies helped people in the late
1800s get to and from work?
3. What social class grew as a result of industrialization
in the late in the late 1800s?
4. Why were diseases and pollution big problems in
American cities in the late 1800s?
5. Why did political machines help city dwellers in the
late 1800s?
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Henry George
Lester Frank Ward
Edward Bellamy
Naturalism
Jane Addams
Settlement house
Americanization
Answer:
1. What were Lester Frank Ward’s views on
government?
2. How did the beliefs of naturalist writers differ from
those of Social Darwinists?
3. What were the beliefs of Dwight L. Moody?
4. How did the United States try to Americanize
immigrants?