3.2 Immigrants and Urbanization

an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States

• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• culture shock
• melting pot

immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910

• Angel Island
• culture shock
• melting pot
• Chinese Exclusion Act

the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life

• culture shock
• melting pot
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Gentlemen's Agreement

society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture

• melting pot
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Gentlemen's Agreement
• graft

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese people unless they were students, teachers, merchants, tourists or government officials - essentially not allowing in laborers

• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Gentlemen's Agreement
• graft
• political machine

Agreement when Japan agreed to lower the number of workers coming to the US, and in exchange Roosevelt agreed to allow the wives of the Japanese men already living in the US to join them

• Gentlemen's Agreement
• graft
• political machine
• kickback

Illegal use of political influence for personal gain (quid-pro-quo)

• graft
• political machine
• kickback
• Tammany Hall

a strong party organization that can control political appointments and deliver votes

• political machine
• kickback
• Tammany Hall
• Tweed Ring Scandal

A bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction

• kickback
• Tammany Hall
• Tweed Ring Scandal
• Thomas Nast

a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

• Tammany Hall
• Tweed Ring Scandal
• Thomas Nast
• patronage