Cities, Immigrants, and Farmers

Across11. law that required the federal government to purchase a large amount of silver each month16. occurs when prices rise but products stay the same19. created to investigate complaints against railroads and to enforce the act20. a facility in San Francisco similar to Ellis Island; mainly Asian immigrants22. state governments cannot regulate railroads running through more than on state23. a satirical artist that attacked Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in his political cartoons24. marked the first step towards federal regulation of unfair business practices; prohibited giving different rates

to different customers for the same service25. made farmers' loan payments even harder to pay28. inflated currency32. immigrants landed here upon arrival in America via New York; they would be given a health examination and processed for admission into the United States33. noted for being the most "corrupt politician of his day" ran New York City successfully for many years;

acquiring a fortune in kickbacks34. the belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural

influences were undesirable35. negotiated with the Japanese government in 1907; the Japanese agreed to prevent further immigration of

workers from Japan to the United States36. New York political machine that ruled from 1850s-1930s

Down1. the Supreme Court ruled that a state government could regulate a private utility if that utility was serving a

public interest2. Populist Party national platform in the 1892 Presidential elections3. delivered by William Jennings Bryan exalting farmers and denouncing banking interests for attempting to

"crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"4. would raise farm prices and make farm loans easier to repay5. let a murderer go free because the Supreme Court ruled that the Chinese could not testify6. regional political associates in the Northwest and South7. a natural disaster that devastated farmers in the Great Plains8. 1896 Democratic Presidential nominee; supported "free sliver"; supported by Populist Party9. connected farmers to urban markets10. the People's Party; political party believed that the government was under the control of the rich and the

Republicans and Democrats had sold out to banking interests12. permitted "whites and persons of African descent" to become U.S. citizens but denied Asians the same right13. to make similar to others14. a national association of farmers' social clubs meant to end the rural isolation of farmers15. movement of people from the country side into the city17. urban neighborhoods where immigrants of the same nationality would settle down18. strong leader of a political machine21. placed a ban on the immigration of the Chinese skilled and unskilled laborers to the U.S. for a period of 10

years26. assimilated into mainstream American society by learning its values and behaviors27. low-cost rental housing barely meeting minimal living requirements29. an organization that gets citizens to vote for its candidates on election day30. organizer of the Grange Movement31. the reasons people leave one place and go to another