Reconstructing Diversity in America

Essential Questions:

1)      Was life better or worse for immigrants living in America rather than in their homeland?

2)      What did the suffrage and temperance movements attempt to change in American Society?

3)      How did political injustice effect society in the late 1800’s.

4) How did discrimination effect American society (racial, gender, ethnicity etc)?

Key Terms

Urban

Rural

Boss William Marcy Tweed (p. 95 & Ch 19)

Tenement

Thomas Nast (p. 99)

Political Machine ( p. 95)

Political Boss (p. 95)

Mark Twain Ch. 21

New Immigrant (p. 114)

Ellis Island (p. 115)

Old Immigrant (Notes)

Jacob Riis p. 116

PT Barnham (Ch 20)

Chinese Exclusion Act (Ch 24-25)

 Yick Wo v. Hopkins (p. 126)

Women’s Suffrage p. 131

National Women’s Suffrage Association ( p.133)

Susan B. Anthony (p. 133)

Carrie Nation (p. 135)

Temperance (p. 135)

Thomas Edison (p. 155)

Ida B. Wells (Ch. 33)

Lynch (Ch. 34)

Booker T. Washington ( Ch. 35) 

WEB DuBois (Ch. 36)