| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Gilded Age | Term Twain used to describe time period meaning covered in gold but poverty and sickness lay beneath |
| Chinese | came over and settled in the West building the Transcontinental railroad |
| North and Western Europeans | came in large numbers during the early and mid 1800s |
| South and Eastern Europeans | came in large numbers during the late 1800s and early 1900s. |
| Ellis Island | Port City that inspected immigrants and they came in from the East (NY) |
| Angel Island | Port City that inspected immigrants and they came in from the West (CA) |
| melting pot | a mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together abandoning their native languages |
| nativism | overt favoritism towards native-born Americans |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | banned entry to all Chinese except students, teachers merchants, tourists and government officials |
| Gentlemen Agreement | Japan's government agreed to limit the number of passports issued if the US agreed to end segregation in schools |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| tenements | poor apartment buildings that held multiple families |
| Social Gospel Movement | first movement that felt a responsibility to help the urban poor |
| settlement House | community centers in urban areas that gave assistance to the poor |
| political machine | offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support |
| graft | illegal use of political influence for personal gain |
| Boss Tweed | NY City's powerful Democratic political machine |
| patronage | giving government jobs to help people who had helped a candidate get elected |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | eliminated the patronage systems by giving government jobs to qualified candidate |
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