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Honors History chapter 15

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What immigrants came from 1830 to 1860
Irish and Germans
Why did Irish come to America
Problems growing potatoes and they want to take part in government/democracy
What immigrants came from 1860 to 1890
Scandinavians
Who opposed immigrants and why didn't they like them
the know nothings didn't like immigrants because they were Catholics they took jobs and they were not bothering to adapt American culture
What immigrants came to America from 1890 to 1914
Italians, Greeks, Austrians, Russians, and Jews
What were reasons to oppose new immigrants
Competition for jobs in cities

Hard to Americanize and had little education

Live in segregated communities
Nordic supremacy
The theory that white people with light hair and eyes are superior
Who move from the south to cities in the north from 1890 to 1910 to escape racial violence
African Americans
Assimilates people into main culture
Americanization movement
Multi family room in dwellings and overcrowded and unsanitary
Tenements
Move large numbers of people one fixed roots
Mass transit
People hired to sweep Streets, collect garbage clean our houses and often do not do job properly
Scavengers
Lack of water, candles and, wood houses
Fire hazards
Community centers in slums help immigrants and are run by college educated women. They provide educational cultural and social services
Settlement houses
Immigration processing station in San Francisco Bay
Angel Island
Immigration center in New York that Europeans went through
Ellis island
What is America known as
Melting pot
San Francisco Segregates Japanese school children. Japan agrees to limit immigration in return US repeals segregation
The gentleman's agreement
In 1882 this banned entry to most Chinese
Chinese exclusion act
Leads a ring, cheated city millions of dollars. He escapes prison and flees to Spain but is caught.

big guy with big nose
Boss tweed
Government jobs to those who helped the candidate get elected.
Patronage
Famous cartoonist that helps the public find out about Boss Tweeds Scandals
Thomas Nast
What are civil service jobs?
They are government jobs
Illegal use of political influences for personal gain
Graft
Organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city. It also offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support.
Political machine
Tried to gain voters support on a city block in a neighborhood and who reported to a ward boss
Precinct workers
At exception time they worked to secure the vote in all precincts in the ward or elector district
Ward boss
Controlled the activities of the political party throughout the city
City boss
Republicans against civil service reforms
Stalwarts
Precinct workers, ward boss, city boss made up what
Machine organization
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