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Boss Tweed
Head of New York City’s powerful democratic political machine
19th president
Ruther B Hayes
20th president
James A Garfield
21st president
Chester A Authur
22nd president
Grover Cleveland
23rd president
Benjamin Harrison
24th president
Grover Cleveland
25th
William McKinley
Jane Addam
Social reformer who helped the poor and cofounder of Hull House
Fredrick Law Olmsted
developer of central park
George Eastman
Inventor of the camera
Louis Sullivan
early leader of architecture
Daniel Burnham
Chicago architect
Orville and Wilbur Wright
brothers who flew the first airplane
Mark Twain
Samuel Lanahorne Clemens is the pen name for this novelist and humorist
Angel Island
inspection station for immigrants arriving on the west coast
Ellis Island
inspection station of immigrants arriving on the east coast
Tammy Hall
New York City’s most powerful democratic political machine
Tenement
Multifamily urban dwelling
Nativism
obvious favoritism toward native born Americans
Melting Pot
A mixture of different cultures and races who blended together
Gentlemen’s agreement
agreement in which Japan agreed to limit unskilled workers from emigrating to US, if US repealed the San Francisco segregation order
Americanization movement
program to assimilate people of wide ranging cultures into American culture
Ashcan School
school of painting that featured Urban life and working people with gritty realism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Act that limited Chinese immigration
Civil Service
Government administration
Graft
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain
Hull House
Settlement house that helped the poor of Chicago, to help increase social mobility and political solution for Urban poor
Mass transit
transportation system designed to move lare numbers
Patronage
the giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Act that implemented merit system in civil service hiring
Political machine
a group that controlled a political party
pragmatism
school of philosophical thought developed in the 1870s
Rural free delivery (RFD)
system that brought packages directly to homes
Soical Gospel movement
movement that urged people to help the poor
Social mobility
the ability of families or individuals to move into a higher soical class
Social stratifaction
organization of people into social classes wealth
Settlement house
community center that addressed problems in slum neighborhoods
Urbanization
the growth of cities
Stalwarts
The party quickly divided over the issue of patronage hiring opposed changes in the patronage system
Half Breeds
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