Chapter 18

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2. Push factors

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What makes a person want to leave a place

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1. Urbanization

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The migration of a person from rural areas to the city

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3. Pull factors

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What makes someone want to come to a place

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4. Immigrants ghettos

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Placed where immigrants would live after they had come to America

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5. Assimilation

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The process of integrating through giving up ones old culture for a new one

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6. Nativism

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The ideas that the only people who should be allowed in the country are white people from the mayflower

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7. Immigration restrictions league

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Used tests to try and help stop and limit the flow of immigrants

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8. Central Park

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Created to help make cities look nicer and allowed and escape

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9. City beautiful movement

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The attempt to make cities nicer to live in

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10. Back bay

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Landfill neighborhood in Boston

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11. Suburbs

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Communities located on the out skirts of cities

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12. Tenements

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Places where immigrants would live that often didn’t have windows

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13. Jacob Riis

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Took pictures of people in tenements to help show how bad their living conditions were

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14. Mass transit

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Help make commuting easier and cheaper

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15. Skyscraper

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Buildings made possible due to the mass production of steel

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16. Pollution

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Made due to coal burning in factories

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17. Public health service

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charged with preventing occupational diseases
attempted to create common health standards for all factories
limited impact
established protection of public health as federal responsibility

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18. Boss rule

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Immigrant politicians started to be able to have power over basic jobs

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19. Tammany Hall

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political machine
George Washington Plunkitt
William M. Tweed

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20. Boss Tweed

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an American politician most notable for being the “boss” of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State

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21. Mass merchandising

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The high demand of products created a high need for production of goods

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22. A & P

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is a supermarket and liquor store chain in the United States

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23. Woolworth

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A chain of dried food chain stores

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24. Chain stores

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Stores by the same name and owned by the same company that poped up everywhere

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25. Mail order catalog

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Allowed buyers to choose from a wide array of goods and get them in a few month s

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26. Montgomery Ward

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historically distinct American retail enterprises. It can refer either to the defunct mail order and department store retailer, which operated between 1872 and 2000

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27. Sears Roubuck

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Created by Sears that sold a variation of goods and put out mail order catalogues

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28. Department Stores

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Were designed to show that shopping could be a whole day affair

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29. National Consumer Leagues

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1891, is an American consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues

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30. Coney Island

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An amusement park that helped people escape

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31. Major leagues baseball

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Considered the nations sport and gained popularity after the civil war

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32. NCAA

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National Collegiate athletics Association

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33. Basketball

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Another sport that invoked a ball and was played in colleges

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34. George M Cohen

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American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and produce

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35. Irving Berlin

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An American composer and lyricist

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36. Vaudville

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A show that combined various types of acts

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37. Birth of a Nation

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One of the first silent films

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38. Nickelodeon

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A jukebox that required a coin to play music

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39. Dime Novels

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We're used as a source of entertainment inside homes

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40. Scott Joplin

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Wrote and played ragtime music

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41. William Randolph Hearst

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The owner of a newspaper company

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42. Joseph Pulitzer

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Owner of the New York Sun a Newspaper company

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43. Ladies home journal

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An American magazine published for women

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44. Mark Twain

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Wrote books about young boys who lived in the south

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45. Uptown Sinclair

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A black author/writer who wrote about the jungle oil

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46. Ashcan school of Art

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An art school that encouraged realism

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47. Stephen Crane

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Wrote the red badge of courage which is a famous American novel

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48. Charles Darwin

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Had the idea that the fittest organism would live on

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49. Land Grant Universtiy

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education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.

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50. Women's colleges

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Helped to educated women some were separated colleges while others we separate buildings