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What is push factors
conditions that drive people away from their homes
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What is a primary
an election in which voters choose their party's candidate
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What is mark twain
american wtier and humorist
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What is push and pull factors that brought immigrants over
scarce land, religion, and taxes
industrial jobs, the promise of freedom, and freedom of religion |
What is the great migration
the movement from farms to cities
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What is pull factors
conditions that attract immigrants to an area
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What isan iniatitive
a process by which boters can put a bill directly before the state legislature
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What is boss tweed
political boss, stole 100, 000, 000 dollars
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Where were the places immigrants came over to the U.S.
ellis island and angel bay
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how cities were organized
central business district, zone of transition, lower class, middle class, upper class
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who are nativists
a person opposed to immigrants
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What is a referendum
a process by which people vote directly on a bill
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What is jane addams
started community centers that offered services to the poor
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Where new immigrants were from
italy, asia, russia, greeks, polish
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How streetcars led to expansion of cities
they were able to reach suburbs therefore people started living there
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What is patronage
the practice of rewarding suppoerters government jobs
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What is a recall
a process by which voters can remove an elected official
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What is robert la follette
governo
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Why natives wanted to limit immigration
perserve the country for them
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What is the Jungle
fiction, fact based, about the meatpacking industry
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who are political bosses
a powerful politician who controls government, trades favors for support, and demands payoffs from businesses
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What is compulsor education
the requirement that children attend school at a certain grade or age
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What is thomas nast
political cartoonist
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What is the China exclusion act
end immigration from China
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pendleton act
provided that government jobs be selected through exams
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