Week 12: Immigration & Challenges in Cities

A man who lived in New York City; he became a political boss/party boss and stole millions of dollars from the NYC government. A cartoonist named Thomas Nast drew cartoons criticizing him.

• Boss Tweed

• Jane Addams

• W.E.B DuBois

• Abraham Lincoln

Another name for immigrant neighborhoods is-

• urbanization

• industrialization

• ghetto

• barrio

This was a settlement house in Chicago started by Jane Addams.

• Phyllis Wheatley YWCA

• Hull House

• The Apollo

• Ellis Island

There are places in cities where people from the same countries or ethnic groups lived; examples are Chinatown and Little Italy in New York City

• cities

• immigrant neighborhoods

• areas

• reservations

Moving from hand-making items to using machines to make them; people working in factories used machines to help them do their jobs

• urbanization

• manufacturing

• industrialization

• factories

A woman who wanted to help poor people and immigrants; she started Hull House in Chicago to do that

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Susan B. Anthony

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Jane Addams

This means "not allowing freedom"; many governments don't have freedom of speech or religion

• mechanization

• urbanization

• oppression

• suburban

This is an elected official who has many dishonest employees and who is able to control the government with the help of those employees (AKA-a party boss)

• Political Boss

• Political Machine

• Politician

• Civil Service Worker

What it's called when a political boss and his employees are running a city or town.

• Immigrant Neighborhood

• ghetto

• Political Machine

• Party Boss

This is a place where poor people and/or immigrants could go to get help, learn English, and have daycare or Kindergarten for their children

• immigrant neighborhood

• immigration

• oppression

• settlement house