Chapter 8 – Politics, Immigration and Urban Life

Agenda:
Wizard of OZ Allegory
Objective U.S 29D:
Use the process of history inquiry to interpret and use multiple type of sources of
evidence.
Link to the Wizard of Oz
• When Baum wrote the Wizard
of Oz, he made astute
observations about rural life in
South Dakota and
urban/industrial life in Chicago.
• Many have made the links
between the book & movie,
industrialization, westward
expansion and the Populist
movement.
1. Now for you to find some of the
connections between the Populist
movement and the story of The Wizard of
Oz.
2. With your team you will read the Allegory
of the Wizard of OZ with the Clarifying
bookmark.
3. When you finish work as a team to find the
allegory’s (example Dorothy's slippers
represent what?)
Chapter 8 – Politics, Immigration and Urban Life
1. Steerage
2. Ellis Island
3. Angel Island
4. Credit Mobilier Scandal
5. Ghettos
6. Americanization
7. Quarantine
8. Chinese Exclusion Act
9. Nativism
10. Tenement
11. Gilded Age
12. Spoils system
13. Political machine
14. Pendleton Civil Service Act
15. Interstate Commerce Act
16. Jacob Riis
17. Social gospel movement
18. Settlement house
19. Jane Addams
20. Temperance movement
QUIZ MONDAY!!!
Chapter 8 – Politics, Immigration and Urban Life
1. Gilded Age
2. Credit Mobilier Scandal (291)
3. spoils system
4. Pendleton Civil Service Act
5. Grover Cleveland
6. Interstate Commerce Commission
7. William McKinley (pg. 296)
8. pogroms
9. steerage
10. quarantine
11. ghettos
12.Chinese Exclusion Act (pg. 302)
13. Gentleman’s agreement
14. alien (pg 302)
15. suburb
16. tenement
17. dumbbell tenement (pg. 307)
18. Jacob Riis
19. political machine
20. graft
21. “Boss” Tweed (pg. 309)
22. social gospel movement
23. settlement house
24. Jane Addams (pg. 312)
25. nativism
26. temperance movement (pg. 314)
27. prohibition