Week 8 (Xam 2)
History 403 with Thomas J. Archdeacon at University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Immigrants with skills that are the same as those of the existing population are called _______ for them.
Substitutes
Immigrants with skills that are different from those of the existing population are called _________ for them.
Complements
The ____________ wage is one that is adjusted for inflation, so that the buying power of a unit a of a country's money remains the same over time.
Real
The difference between predicted values and actual ones are known as errors or _________.
Residuals
Economists use the term "_________" to describe skills that make one set of workers more productive than another.
Human Capital
Superintendent of the Census for 1870 and 1880 and a critic of the "new immigration".
Francis Amasa Walker
Italian word associated with immigrants who served as middle men between their countrymen and employers.
Padrones
The "King of the Greeks" in Utah.
Leonidas Skliris
Group involved in strikebreaking 141 times between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
African Americans
Site of successful strike by New Immigrant textile workers in 1912.
Lawrence, MA
The study of hereditary improvement by controlled selective breeding.
Eugenics
Discoverer of the basic laws of genetic inheritance.
Gregor Mendel
Cousin of Darwin and pioneer in the field of statistics.
Francis Galton
The effort to draw lessons for human society from Darwin's idea of natural selection.
Social Darwinism.
Coined the term, "survival of the fittest."
Herbert Spencer
Movement for which Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch were spokespersons.
Social Gospel
Early sociologist who argued that humans could use their minds to direct evolution to purposeful ends.
Lester Frank Ward
Fear expressed by Theodore Roosevelt, among others, about the shrinking size of Anglo-Saxon families.
Race Suicide
Director of the Eugenics Records Office.
Charles Davenport
Director of the Vineland Training School.
Henry Hubbard Goddard
Family name of subjects of a major study done at the Vineland School.
Kallikak
Author of "Races of Europe" (1899).
William Z. Ripley
Author of "The Passing of the Great Race" (1916).
Madison Grant
Man displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1916 as representing "the missing link."
Ota Benga
President of Stanford, ichthyologist, and eugenicist.
David Starr Jordan
This founder of the Immigration Restriction League said, "It is fundamentally a question as to what kind of babies shall be born; it is a question as to what races shall dominate in this country."
Robert Decourcy Ward
He described the New Immigrants as "beaten men from beaten races; representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence."
Francis Amasa Walker
UW professor, important figure in the history of academic freedom, friend of workers, opponent of Japanese immigration.
Edward A. Ross
Famed student of the Constitution and court system who was a founder of the Immigration Restriction League.
Charles Warren
Senate spokesperson for the Immigration Restriction League.
Henry Cabot Lodge.
Mechanism for restricting immigration favored by the Immigration Restriction League.
Literacy Test
The practice of granting women citizenship based on their nationality of their spouses derived from the old legal concept of _________.
Couverture
________ is a process by which a legislature takes the individual laws passed over a period of year and pertaining to the same topic into a single act.
Codification.
Leader of the Immigration Commission active between 1907 and 1911.
William P. Dillingham
Cornell economist who was a member of the Immigration Commission.
Jeremiah W. Jenks
Volume 5 of the Immigration Commissions Reports.
Dictionary of Races and Peoples
Historian who, in the 1950s, wrote a critique of the Immigration Commission's interpretations of its data.
Oscar HandlinThe
The White Slave Traffic Act is popularly known as the _______ Act.
Mann
Presidents who vetoed the literacy test.
Cleveland, Taft, Wilson
Year when the literacy test became law.
1917
Area from which immigration prohibited by the Immigration Act of 1917.
Asiatic Barred Zone
She said, "Woman suffrage would increase the number of native born voters as for every 100 foreign white women immigrants coming to this country there are 129 men."
Carrie Chapman Catt
About this deck
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Created: 2009-10-29
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