Chapter 7 Review–US History – Flashcards
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old immigrants
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immigrants who came to the us before the 1880s; mostly protestants from northwestern europe
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tenements
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poorly built apartment buildings that housed many impoverished city-dwellers in the late 1800's and early 1900's
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elisha otis
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developed a mechanized elevator
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ellis island
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immigration station on the east coast (New York)
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football
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invented by Walter Camp; based off of rugby and played by upper class colleges
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Edwin Booth
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a premier actor of his day
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new immigrants
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immigrants who came to the US between the 1880s and 1910s; mostly from southern and eastern Europe
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Walter Camp
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inventor of football
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settlement houses
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community-service centers that were founded in the late 1800s to offer educational opportunities, skills training, and cultural events to impoverished neighborhoods
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theatre
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typically for wealthy upper class; Shakespeare recreations did very well
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suburbs
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residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city
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immigration testing
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physical exams and background checks that decides if the immigrants were allowed to stay in the US
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The American Dream
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the ideal that every US should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative
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basketball
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invented by James Naismith to entertain difficult students during the winter
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Nouveau Riche
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"newly rich"; new class of American city-dwellers that arose in the late 1800s; most made their fortunes from businesses during the Second Industrial Revolution
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Ragtime
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style of music created in the 1890s by African American pianists who played a driving rhythm with one hand and an improvised melody with the other
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Jane Addams
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the forefront of the American settlement-house movement
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Angel Island
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immigration station on the west coast (San Francisco)
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Steerage
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poor accommodations in a ship's lower level; many immigrants going to the US traveled in this space
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immigrant jobs
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most worked in construction, mines, and sweatshops; difficult work; long hours; low wages; did the country's "dirty work"
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industrialization
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more factories over farms
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nativists
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people who favored native-born american citizens over foreigners
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transcontinental rr
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rr stretching across the continental us
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chinese immigrants
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taking most rr jobs; putting many us citizens out of work
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chinese exclusion act
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law that denied us citizenship to ppl born in china and prohibited immigration of laborers
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vaudeville
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french for "light play"; several short acts combined
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john dewey
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an education reformer who stressed learning by doing, science, art, and history
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skyscraper
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large multistory building
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immigration restriction league
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organization sought to impose a literacy test on all us immigrants
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compulsory education laws
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law that required parents to send their kids too school
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conspicuous consumption
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spending money to display one's wealth
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baseball
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based off of british game rounders; first pro team was the cincinnati red stockings
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growth of literacy
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literacy rates grew due to public education requirements
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leisure time
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free time due to the massive growth of the middle class and help of unions
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yellow journalism
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style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers
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scott joplin
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king of ragtime
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grover cleveland
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us president during the peak of industrialization and immigration
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middle class
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social class where youre not in poverty or rich
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benevolent societies
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organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death
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james naismith
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inventor of basketball
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movement within cities
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people started relocating to the suburbs as cities grew
