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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tenements | city and housing consisted of multifamily buildings |
| political machines | took control of many city government, partly by providing help to the growing number of por immigrants voters and thereby gaining their suppirt |
| settlement house movement | provide eduction and services to the poor |
| company towns | where built and owned by a single employer but workers in these towns were dependent on their employers for everything from housing to food to police protection |
| suffrage | women's first need to win the right to vote |
| ghettose | urban areas that are dominated by a sing ethnic group |
| nativism | the belief that native-born Americans and their ways of life were superior to immigrants and their way of life |
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