Progressive Era

a condition that drives people from their homeland

• Push factor

• Pull Factor

• Patronage

• Civil Service

a condition that attracts people to move to a new area

• pogrom

• steerage

• Pull Factor

• nativist

in Eastern Europe, an organized attack on the Jewish community

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• pogrom

• tenement

• Social Gospel

on a ship, the cramped quarters for passengers paying the lowest fares

• building code

• settlement house

• Hull House

• steerage

process of holding on to old traditions while adapting to a new culture

• patronage

• acculturation

• muckraker

• Civil Service

an American who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born white Protestants

• Progressive

• referendum

• recall

• nativist

1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• trustbuster

• Square Deal

• conservation

the movement of population form farms to cities

• Bull Moose Party

• New Freedom

• urbanization

• Federal Reserve Act

a small apartment in a city slum building

• Federal Trade Commission

• pull factor

• Push factor

• tenement

a standard set by the government for building construction and safety

• pogrom

• building code

• acculturation

• steerage