AP U.S. History / Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
Notes
Nativism grew. The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) banned Chinese laborers. Political machines (Tammany Hall) helped immigrants in exchange for votes. Settlement houses (Jane Addams's Hull House) offered services.
Practice
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882):
First major ethnic ban.
Hull House was founded by:
Settlement house.
Political machines gained immigrant support by:
Patronage.
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