Exam 2- Immigration, Industry, Gilded Age, and Westward

This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Ban on Foreign Labor Act
• The Asian Immigration Act
• The Chinese Labor Law

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CCSS.RL.8.9

When Japan raised an angry protest at the segregation in schools of its emigrants, President Theodore Roosevelt worked out a deal called...

• National Agreement Act
• Japanese Agreement act
• Gentleman's Agreement 
• Civil Rights Act

The idea that native born white Americans were superior to newcomers

• assimilate

• melting pot

• nativism

• Americanization

Unwanted effects of Industrialization on urban areas included all EXCEPT

• Overcrowding

• Growth of Rural communities

• Spread of Diseases

• Unsanitary Conditions

An economic practice where the government does NOT try to control the economy.

• Gospel of Wealth

• laissez faire

• Social Darwinism

• horizontal integration

Push factors are....

• good things that draw a person to another country
• reasons that drive a person out of their country
• reasons people migrate to a new area

How did the Pullman Strike end?

• President Cleveland had to send in troops to end it

• With an agreement that the workers would receive better pay.

• With an agreement that the workers would receive better working conditions.

• With a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the workers.

Which is true of Ellis Island

• Where 3rd class passengers were processed

• Immigrants had to win a basketball game

• Immigrants were usually from Asia

• Immigrants had to pass literacy test

What incident occurred in 1886 that badly hurt the reputation of labor unions? Made people suspicious of them

• the formation of the American Federation of Labor

• the Pullman Strike

• the Haymarket Riot

• the Great Railroad Strike

The Homestead Act attempted to promote development of western lands by

• creating a system of dams for crop migration

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• placing Native Americans on reservations

• providing free land to settlers