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| make American in character or nationality |
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| an island in San Francisco Bay, in north central California, that was the chief immigration station on the US western coast. It is now a state park. |
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| take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully |
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| an agreement with legal force, in particular |
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| US educator; full name Booker Taliaferro Washington. A leading commentator for black Americans, he established the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
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| was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S |
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| involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal |
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| a system of money in general use in a particular country |
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| the action or process of deflating or being deflated |
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| the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of |
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| an island in the bay of New York that served as an entry point for immigrants to the US 1892–1943 and as a detention center for people awaiting deportation until 1954. It is now part of a national monument and houses an immigration museum. |
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| leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another |
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| of or relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition |
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| the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. |
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| The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in the 1870s and 1880s |
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| George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) was an American politician from New York. |
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| In United States history, the Gilded Age was the period following roughly from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century |
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| "Wealth",[2] more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth",[3] is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889[4] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich |
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| A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases |
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| a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap. |
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| informal a dollar bill; a dollar |
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| Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist, |
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| come to live permanently in a foreign country |
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| a thing that motivates or encourages one to do something |
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| The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. |
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| the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated |
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| Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. |
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| US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist. In 1889 she founded Hull House, a center for the care and education of Chicago's poor and a national model for combating urban poverty and treating youthful offenders. She was a leader of the suffrage movement and an active pacifist. Nobel Peace Prize |
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| The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. |
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| Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924)[1] was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers"[2] and "father of |
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| (of a mob) kill (someone), esp. by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. |
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| , US novelist and humorist; pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. After gaining a reputation as a humorist with his early work, he wrote his best-known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885); both give a vivid evocation of Mississippi frontier life. |
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| the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrant |
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| In politics, the party leader is the most powerful official within a political party. He/She speaks to his/her political party and represents them |
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| another name for the Populist Party. |
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| the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed esp. by the generous donation of money to good causes. |
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| A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters |
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| a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources. |
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| a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people. |
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| in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town |
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| the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart |
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| an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. |
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| A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many storeys, usually designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper |
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| the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. |
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| Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. |
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| historical the part of a ship providing accommodations for passengers with the cheapest tickets |
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| a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim: |
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| of or characteristic of a suburb |
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| a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. |
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| a small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a mechanism, esp. in order to fire a gun |
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| in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town |
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| make or become urban in character |
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| (officially referred as W. E. B. Du Bois High School, and locally as W. E. B. Du Bois or Du Bois for short) is a U.S |
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| William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) – often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed (see below),[1] and widely known as "Boss" Tweed |
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| William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. |
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| 25th president of the US 1897–1901. A Republican, he favored big business and waged the Spanish–American War of 1898, which resulted in the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, as well as the annexation of Hawaii, and brought the US to the forefront of world power. He was assassinated by an anarchist while in Buffalo, New York. |
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