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The Guilded Age
Test 6 Review
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History
10th Grade
11/30/2009

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Ellis Island
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New York immigration station
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Melting Pot
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Immigrants don't want to give up cultural identity
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Nativism
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Favoritism toward people born in America
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Banned entry to Chinese
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Gentlemen's Agreement
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Japan limits immigrats
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Urbanization
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Movement to cities
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Americanization Movement
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Assimilate people into main culture
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Tenement
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Multi family urban dwellings, overcrowded and unsanitary
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Mass Transit
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Moves large numbers of people along fixed routes
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Social Gospel Movement
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Preached salvation through service to the poor
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Settlement Houses
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Community centrers in slums, helps immigrants
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Jane Adams
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Founded the Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889
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Political Machine
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A disciplined organization which an authorative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters
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Graft
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A type of political corruption
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Boss Tweed
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Most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York
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Patronage
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The support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another
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Civil Service
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A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations
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Rutherford Hayes
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19th president of the United States
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James Garfield
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20th president of the United States
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Chester Arthur
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21st president of the United States
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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Placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called spoils system
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Grover Cleveland
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22nd and 24th president of the United States
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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Invented the first airplane
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Skyscraper
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Tall, continuously habitable building
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Tuskegee normal and Industrial Institute
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W.E.B.Du Bois
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Attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism
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Niagara Movement
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Black civil rights organization founded in 1905
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Ida B. Wells
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Female African-American journalist
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Poll Tax
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A tax of a portioned, fixed amount per individual in accordance with the census
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Grandfather Clause
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Allows poor whites to vote
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Segregation
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The seperation of whites from blacks
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregation laws
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Debt Peonage
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Segregation legal in public places
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism
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Department Store
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Retail establishment
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Mark Twain
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American author
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Rural Free Delivery
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