American History SG2 Vocab

"With the new commuter lines, I can work in the city and live in the suburbs."

Middle-class gentility

"We have to put strict limits on immigration! These European anarchists, Catholics, and Chinese laborers will ruin the country and take away our jobs!"

Nativist

"While waiting to hear my fate I wrote poetry on the walls of the detention barracks on Angle Island."

Nativist

"His Plight was largely due to circumstances beyond his control"

Naturalist writer

"Let me help you get what you need, Just remember to vote for me on election day!"

Party boss

"Every American should have access to libraries, so I will help make it possible."

Andrew Carnegie

"Believing education is the ticket to social equality, I founded the Tuskegee Institute."

Booker T. Washington

"I migrated North hoping to escape the oppression I experienced in the South."

African American

"I endured the discomfort of steerage passage and the humiliation of processing at Ellis Island for the privilege of working long hour for low wages in a city factory."

European immigrant

"I portray people in art and literature as they really are, not as they wish to be."

Realist

" 'Survival of the fittest" applies to society as well as to biological evolution."

Social Darwinist

"Participating in social reform will enable me to achieve salvation."

Social Gospel reformer