Chapter 7 Study Guide

Terms

1. Urbanization

2. Suburb

3. Ghetto

4. Tenement

5. Ellis Island

6. Angel Island

7. Nativism

8. Chinese Exclusion Act

9. Assimilation

10. Jim Crow laws

11. Mail order catalog

12. 1904 World’s Fair

13. Coney Island

14. Vaudeville shows

15. Political machine

People

1. Elisha Otis

2. Booker T. Washington

3. W.E.B. DuBois

4. Joseph Pulitzer

5. William Randolph Hearst

6. William “Boss” Tweed

Questions

1. List the five groups of people that took many of the new jobs created as a result of Industrialization.

2. How did cities “grow” as a result of Industrialization?

3. Describe what city life was like for the poor.

4. From which countries did “old immigrants” come? “New immigrants”?

5. Explain the types of jobs most immigrants had during the late 1800s to early 1900s.

6. Why did immigrants want to come to the United States? Explain at least three reasons.

7. What was life like for the rich in the late 1800s? For the middle class? For the poor?

8. What 5 groups of people were hired to fill the “new” industrial jobs?

9. Describe the immigration process.

10. Why did some Americans not like immigrants coming to the US?

11. Explain the court case Plessy v. Ferguson.

12. How did African Americans fight back against discrimination?

13. How did the field of education change in the late 1800s?

14. What developments changed American methods of selling in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

15. How did people in the late 1800s/early 1900s spend their free time?