Immigration and Urbanization Vocabulary

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What does the term "Urbanization" mean?

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The term 'Urbanization' means the growth and expansion of cities as more people move from rural to urban areas.

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What is the term for the movement of people from the countryside or rural areas, to urban centers or large towns and cities?

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Urbanization

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What are political machines in the context of the late 1800s in the United States?

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Political machines are organized groups that control political parties in cities, often through corrupt practices.

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Urbanization enlarged the vast differences in wealth between people and sharpened tensions between people of wealth and the poor. The division of people is called?

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the class system or social stratification

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During the urbanization period in the United States, Congress passed a law to exclude people from a particular country. What was it called?

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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The united States and Japan made an agreement concerning immigration during the Urbanization period in America. What was it called?

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The Gentlemen's Agreement

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Where were the "old immigrants" from during the period of Urbanization in America?

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Northern and Western European countries like Great Britain, Ireland and Germany.

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During the period of Urbanization in America there were "old immigrants" and "new immigrants." Where were the new immigrants from?

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Southern and Eastern European Countries like Poland, Russia, Italy and Greece.

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What is meant by the term "ethnic ghetto?"

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An area where a specific ethnic group is concentrated, often facing social and economic isolation.

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What were the people called who believed that white protestant native-born Americans were superior to immigrants, leading to the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882? Options: Isolationists, Ambiguoists, Immigrationists

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Nativists