Boss Tweed - a man who lived in New York City; he became a political boss/party boss and stole millions of dollars from the NYC government. A cartoonist named Thomas Nast drew cartoons criticizing Tweed., ghetto - another name for immigrant neighborhoods, Hull House - a settlement house in Chicago started by Jane Addams, immigrant neighborhood - places in cities where immigrants from the same countries lived; examples are Chinatown and Little Italy in New York City, industrialization - moving from hand-making items to using machines to make them; people working in factories used machines to help them do their jobs; rapid (fast) industrialization caused cities to grow and gave jobs to immigrants, Jane Addams - a woman who wanted to help poor people and immigrants; she started Hull House in Chicago to do that, oppression - not allowing freedom; many governments are oppressive and don't have freedom of speech or religion, political boss - an elected official who has many dishonest employees and who is able to control the government with the help of those employees (AKA-a party boss), political machine - what it's called when a political boss and his employees are running a city or town, settlement house - a place where poor people and/or immigrants could go to get help, learn English, and have day care or Kindergarten for their children, tenement - dirty, crowded, unsafe apartment buildings found in immigrant neighborhoods, urbanization - moving from rural (country) areas into cities, usually for better job opportunities,

Week 12: Immigration and Challenges in Cities

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