Chapter 6: Cities, Immigrants, and Farmers

3. an organization, usually controlled by a strong leader or “boss,” that gets citizens to vote for its candidates on election day.
5. the belief that native-born Americans were superior to others, and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.
7. immigrants who came mainly from Southern and Western Europe (the Balkans, Italy, Poland, and Russia).
9. European immigrants who came mainly from Northern and Central Europe (Germany and England)
10. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party, and played a major role in controlling New York City.
11. state laws regulating the fees grain elevator companies and railroads that charged farmers to store and transport their crops.
12. was formed in the early 1890s to represent the interests of farmers and workers.
13. banned almost all immigrants from China, and was the first restriction ever placed on immigration to the United States (other than against criminals or unhealthy persons).
14. a federally owned island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States.

1. low-cost rental housing barely meeting minimal living requirements.
2. leader of New York City's corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s.
4. an American movement that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers.
6. the movement of people from the countryside to cities.
8. made the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation.