Chapter 15

Urbanization is a term that describes the growth of farming regions

• False

• True

Many city dwellers crowded into multifamily, often unsanitary, settlement houses.

• False

• True

The Americanization movement was designed to assimilate diverse people into the dominant culture.

• False

• True

Jane Addams, one of the most influential members of the Social Gospel movement, founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Staff

• False

• True

This was any type of unethical or illegal use of political influence for personal gain.

These were organized groups that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.

Nineteenth POTUS; he was a strong supporter of civil-service reform. He didn't succeed in getting Congress to go along with his plans for reform, but he was able to clean up the nation's customhouses

• James Garfield

• Grover Cleveland

• Chester A. Arthur

• Rutherford B. Hayes

This is the practice of giving jobs to people who helped the candidate get elected.

As an immigrant, if you said that you had a job waiting for you in America, as you were going through Ellis Island, you were allowed to bypass the process and go directly on to the mainland.

• True

• False

Becomes president after the assassination of President Garfield, he turned reformer when he became president by signing the Pendleton Civil Service Act into law

• James Garfield

• Grover Cleveland

• Chester A. Arthur

• Benjamin Harrison