MCQ for Industrialization, Immigration, Progressivism, Imperialism - U.S History

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New Immigrants

(1890-1914)

  • South + East Europeans = Italians, Greeks, Croats, Slovaks, Poles, Russians

  • Poor & illiterate peasants

  • Non-protestant

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Birds of passage

  • Men contracted for unskilled factory jobs who returned to their homeland after obtaining enough money

  • 25% of new immigrants

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Immigration Restriction & Supporters

  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): ban on new Chinese immigrants

  • Contract Labor Law (1885): restricted temporary workers to immigrate

  • Literary tests, medical exams, taxes…

  • Supported by → labor unions, nativist society, and Social Darwinists

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Settlement Houses

  • Created by well-educated activists to help poor immigrant families (1889)

    • Taught English + arts (theater)

    • Supported early childhood education

  • By 1900, many settlement houses were established in major cities to help impoverished families in tenements

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Social Gospel

  • Preached the importance of applying Christian principles to social problems

  • Motivated religious people to help the cause of social justice for the poo