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Gilded Age - Immigration
Focusing on the surge of immigration and its effect on America
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Undergraduate 2
09/14/2010

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Eastern Europe
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After 1881 most immigrants came to America from this locality
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Passed in 1882 to end labor immigration from this Asian country
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Birds of Passage
Definition
Immigrants who came to America temporarily to earn money.
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Nativist
Definition
Anti-immigrant Americans who were worried about newcomers changing their culture and taking away jobs.
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Great Migration
Definition
Many African-Americans hurting financially, moved from the south during the 1890s, hoping to find jobs up north in the big cities.
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Ellis Island
Definition
An immigration station set up in New York city in 1892
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Castle Garden
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The location for new immigrants in New York City. Do to the large influx, it was replaced by Ellis Island.
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Angel Island
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The immigration station in San Francisco. It handled newcomers from Asia.
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Settlement Houses
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Several hundred were set up in America to aid recently arrived immigrants. Hull House in Chicago was the most famous.
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Jane Addams
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A middle-class educated woman who ran Hull House.
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Steamship
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Most immigrants crossed the ocean to America after 1873 by this manner. Prior to this innovation the sailing ship was employed.
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Patrones
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Individuals who would meet an immigrant who disembarked and offer that person housing, job etc. in exchange for a percentage of payment.
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Urban Areas
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Most new arrivals settled in this type of locality.
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South
Definition
Most recent immigrants avoided settling in this region of America during the Gilded Age
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Low paying industrial jobs.
Definition
Most immigrants found this type of employment in the cities.
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Ethnic Enclaves
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Immigrants tended to establish this kind of neighborhood in urban areas.
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Literacy Test
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Required of immigrants since 1917. It passed over President Wilson's veto.
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12 million
Definition
During the Gilded Age - 1870-1900 how many immigrants arrived in America?
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Dumbbell Tenement
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An apartment building that housed most poor immigrants.
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Head Tax
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This fee was imposed on most immigrants until 1952.
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Chain Migration
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Groups e.g. a small village of Italians would migrate to America to remain. This type of immigration was called.
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Melting Pot
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Term coined for the mishmash of Immigrants flowing into America and assimilating.
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Salad Bowl
Definition
Contemporary immigrants maintaining their ethnic identify.
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