Foran Act of 1885 - correct answer ✔✔Penalized employers who imported contract labor
Enclaves - correct answer ✔✔Any small and relatively homogenous group or region surrounded by
another larger and different group or region
Tenements - correct answer ✔✔Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
Jacob Riis - correct answer ✔✔A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible
conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He
wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.
Immigration/industrialization - correct answer ✔✔The urban population increased dramatically which
caused a change in?
Bobbin boys - correct answer ✔✔worked in a textile mill in the 18th and early 19th centuries. He would
bring bobbins to the women at the looms when they called for them, and collected the full bobbins of
spun cotton or wool thread.
Breaker Boys - correct answer ✔✔Boys that worked in the coal mines for low pay and under dangerous
conditions
Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔✔The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and
economic struggle.
Horatio Alger - correct answer ✔✔Popular novelist during the Industrial Revolution who wrote "rags to
riches" books praising the values of hard work
Jane Addams - correct answer ✔✔the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for
immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
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