Across
- 3. a port in New York that processed mostly European immigrants into the country.
- 5. preference for native inhabitants of a place as opposed to immigrants.
- 8. an American bribery scandal that took place from 1871 to 1875; a group of distillers and public officials who defrauded the federal government of liquor taxes.
- 10. It targeted Chinese and asian immigrants and was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
- 11. a negative term to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.
- 12. a positive term to describe business people as being notably powerful, wealthy, successful, or influential.
- 13. a government limitation that controls the amount of immigrants allowed into the US from various countries.
- 15. Immigrants from northern and western europe. They were often protestant.
- 17. a method of making steel that was cheaper; it led to the easy mass production of steel
Down
- 1. the most famous political machine. Operated in New York City and run by Boss Tweed.
- 2. Immigrants that came from southern and eastern Europe and Asia arrived around 1890-1920. They were often Jewish or Catholic and spoke little to no english.
- 4. a port in California that processed mostly Asian immigrants into the country.
- 6. a political cartoonist who addressed the political corruption in cities. He did not like Boss Tweed especially.
- 7. narrow, low-rise apartment buildings inhabited by immigrants that were often run-down, cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation.
- 9. the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
- 14. a tall commercial building with an iron or steel framework. Only possible because of the Bessemer Process.
- 16. Leader of the Tammany Hall political machine. People saw him as both a hero and a villian.