Chapter 15 Immigration, Urbanization, & Political Corruption

Key Questions:

1. How do political, economic, and social factors influence immigration policy?

2. What factors forced immigrants out of their homelands and lured them to America?

3. What challenges did immigrants face on their journey to America?

4. What problems resulted from urbanization?

5. How did political machines gain and maintain power and control?

Terms & Names:

Ellis Island
Angel Island
Melting pot
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen's Agreement
Urbanization
Americanization
tenement
Settlement house
Guilded Age
Political machine
Graft
Patronage
Kickback
Bribe
Pendeleton Civil Service Act
Jane Adams
Boss William Tweed
Thomas Nast