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Mass Transit
Transportation systems designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes begins in the 1830s with the introduction of horse-drawn omnibuses and streetcars in Eastern cities. -
Boss Tweed
William Tweed, head of Tammany Hall, NYC's powerful democratic political machine in 1868. Between 1868 and 1869 he led the Tweed Reign, a group of corrupt politicians in defrauding the city. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
A law, enacted in 1883, that established a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to government jobs by means of the merit system. -
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Ellis Island
Immigration station in New York Harbor that served as the chief immigration station for the United States from 1892 until 1924; an estimated 17 million immigrants (predominantly European) passed through it
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Gentlemen's Agreement
A 1907-1908 agreement by the government of Japan to limit Japanese emigration to the United States -
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Angel Island
Immigration station in San Francisco Bay in which around 50,000 Chinese immigrants entered the United States between 1910 and 1940
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Chinese Exclusion Act
A law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials from entering the country
