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| 5754211711 | "Old" Immigrants vs. "New" Immigrants | Northern European (English, Germans, Irish Catholics), assimilated easier, high skill level, often spoke English South/Eastern, wouldn't assimilate, close- knit community, uneducated, poor, unskilled laborers | 0 | |
| 5754211712 | Statue Of Liberty | A colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. Hope for immigrants to find a better life in US. | 1 | |
| 5754211713 | Chinese Exclusion Act | (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. Stemmed from fear of Americans that their jobs would be taken. | 2 | |
| 5754211714 | American Protective Association | Major anti-immigrant organization founded by Henry Bowers who despised Catholics and foreigners; organization wanted to stop immigration | 3 | |
| 5754211715 | Dumbbell tenements | Landlords divided up inner-city housing into small, rooms with ventilation shafts in the center to provide windows for each room and could cram over 4,000 people into one city block. These urban apartment buildings that served as housing for poor factory workers. Often poorly constructed. | 4 | |
| 5754211716 | suburbs | Residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation. The middle and upper class moved to these areas, leaving the poor in the cities. | 5 | |
| 5754211717 | Frederick Law Olmsted | Designer of New York City's Central Park, who wanted cities that exposed people to the beauties of nature. One of his projects, the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, gave a rise to the influential "City Beautiful" movement. Designed suburban communities with graceful curved roads and open spaces. | 6 | |
| 5754211718 | settlement house | Houses for immigrants where instruction was given in English and how to get a job, among other things. The first of these was the Hull House, which was opened by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889. These centers were usually run by educated middle class women. The houses became centers for reform in the women's and labor movements. | 7 | |
| 5754211719 | Jane Addams | Prominent social reformer who was responsible for creating the Hull House. She helped other women join the fight for reform, as well as influencing the creation of other settlement houses. | 8 | |
| 5754211722 | W.E.B. DuBois | Black intellectual who challenged Booker T. Washington's ideas on combating Jim Crow; he called for the black community to demand immediate equality and was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wanted access to higher education for the "talented tenth" of African American youth. | 9 | |
| 5754211723 | Mark Twain | Author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) revealed the greed, violence, and racism in American society | 10 | |
| 5754211724 | Stephen Crane | Author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and Red Badge of Courage | 11 | |
| 5754211725 | Jack London | Author of The Call of the Wild (1903) which portrayed the conflict between nature and civilization | 12 | |
| 5754211726 | Theodore Dreiser | Author of Sister Carrie (1900), a novel about a poor working girl in Chicago | 13 | |
| 5754211727 | Winslow Homer | Foremost American painter of seascapes an dwatercolors | 14 | |
| 5754211728 | Ashcan School | The late 1800s school of artists who supported progressive political and social reform. They turned to city streets, the slums, and the working class for subject matter. | 15 | |
| 5754211729 | Frank Lloyd Wright | Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs. | 16 | |
| 5754211730 | John Phillip Sousa | USA, 19-20th Century, "March King", Marine Corps bandmaster, Works: Semper Fidelis, Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post March, El Capitan | 17 | |
| 5754211732 | jazz | A form of music that combined African rhythms with western-style instruments and mixed improvisation with a structured band format | 18 | |
| 5754211733 | Joseph Pulitzer | His New York World newspaper was the first newspaper to exceed a million in circulation. Filled newspaper with stories of crimes and disasters and feature stories about political and economic corruption. | 19 | |
| 5754211734 | William Randolph Hearst | A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism." | 20 | |
| 5754211735 | P.T. Barnum/James A. Bailey | The inventors of the circus, who made it the "Greatest Show on Earth" in the 1880s. | 21 | |
| 5754211736 | Buffalo Bill/Annie Oakley | The two people who introduced the theme of "Wild West" to entertainment in the 1880s. | 22 | |
| 5754211737 | John L. Sullivan | Most famous athlete of the 19th century, who was a heavyweight boxer. | 23 |
