U.S. History STAAR Vocabulary Review

Which of the following people wrote "How the Other Half Lives", describing the deplorable conditions in U.S. urban areas?

• Boss Tweed

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

• Alger Hiss

corrupt city government officials promising to provide services and jobs in exchange for votes

• Tenement

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Political Boss

primary reason for growth in U.S. cities in the early 1900's

• Immigration

• the Homestead Act

• the Dawes Act

• Urbanization

vast government center in New York City where most immigrants were processed into the U.S.

• Angel Island

• Tammany Hall

• Tenements

• Ellis Island

first federal law restricting Asian immigration to the U.S.

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

divided reservation land into individual plots, and was an attempt to force assimilation on Native Americans

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

Unofficial city organization designed to keep a party in power, and is usually led by a single boss

• political party

• party operation

• political scandal

• political machine

the process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture

• assimilation

• urbanization

• immigration

• americanization

Political movement that was opposed to big business and bad urban conditions

• Civil Rights movement

• Progressive Movement

• Women Suffrage Movement

• Prohibition Movement

Business owners who paid workers low wages and too home huge profits became known as...

• Presidents

• Muckrakers

• Robber Barrons

• Nativist