Module 4 Immigration Study Guide
1. Explain the law and purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act
2. Explain the Gentlemen’s agreement and what it meant
3. What State and Island did Asian Immigrants mainly come through?
4. What State and Island did European Immigrants mainly come through?
5. Define the term “Nativism”
6. Describe the term “mass transit” and how it affected/helped city dwellers
7. Name 3 things that negatively affected residents and recent immigrants in
big cities
8. Describe how the political machines worked and why immigrants went along
with it?
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9. Describe who “Boss” Tweed was, his position and why he was so powerful
10.Describe what “Americanization” meant
11.Most immigrants living in big cities were forced to live in tenement housing,
describe what those were
12.Describe the Pendleton act and what was its purpose
13.Describe how Civil Service was at that time in cities, i.e. Police, Fire,
Sanitation
14.What was the reason some workers said they opposed more Chinese
immigrants from entering the West Coast?
15.Define the term “graft”
16.Define the term “patronage”
17.Describe the first and second waves of European immigrants into the US?
18.Describe the change in consumer spending (shopping) and advertisement
during this time
