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By calling their era the "Gilded Age," Mark Twain and Charles Warner were
The processing center for the vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast was at
When President Rutherford B. Hayes attacked the practice of patronage, his supporters were called
Many immigrants flocked to the nation's cities because of
Tenements were community centers that provided assistance to the urban poor.
leader of the New York Democratic political machine
one of the most influential members of the Social Gospel Movement, founded Chicago's Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr.
The Americanization Movement was designed to stimulate diverse people into the dominant culture.
Cities cheaper and more convenient, ethnic neighborhoods and cultural opportunities not found in rural areas.
The main immigration processing station in San Fransisco was called
Many family dwellers crowded into multifamily, often unsanitary, settlement houses.
Which of the following had some of the same goals as the Americanization movement?
The co-founder of Hull House in Chicago was
President Cleveland vetoed a bill requiring a _____ for immigrants.
Fewer laborers needed because of new technology, believed jobs could be found in cities; cultural opportunities not found in rural areas.
_____ immigrants helped build the nation's railroads.
After the 1880s, what was the major new source of labor for American factories?
By the 1870s, almost all immigrants traveled by _____.
Which of the following is Not a country in the Caribbean Islands or Central America that immigrants came in large numbers in the late 1800s?
Nativism is an overt favoritism toward native-born Americans.