Immigration
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Political Change
Segregation
Vocabulary
100
The filthiest part of boats that immigrants traveled in
What is steerage?
100
The invention of the steel frame allowed for these to be built
What are skyscrapers?
100
This movement was for farmers to have better representation in the government
What is populism?
100
Separation of the races
What is segregation?
100

The period in American history during which materialism, a quest for personal gain, and corruption dominated both politics and society

What is the Guilded Age?

200
The idea that some Americans couldn't stand immigrants
What is Nativism?
200
Multi-family homes that immigrants lived in
What are tenements
200
This was set up to discourage monopolies from forming
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
200
Name for the fee that blacks were charged in order to vote
What is the poll tax?
200

A political party formed in 1890 that sought to represent the rights of primarily farmers, but eventually all workers in regional and federal elections

What is the Populist Party?

300
These organizations provided jobs and food in exchange for voting support
What is a political machine?
300
The movement to educate, teach about God and give immigrants food and temporary shelter
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
300
In the election of 1896, Democrats and Populists supported the coinage of this
What is silver?
300
Laws that kept blacks as second class citizens
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300

The strategy of Republican candidates to stress the sacrifices that the nation had to endure in its Civil War against Democratic southern secessionists

Who is the bloody shirt campaign?

400
Doing political favors for personal gain
What is Graft
400
In their leisure time, people in the city did what?
What are ride bikes, walk in the park, baseball games, saloons, vaudeville shows, read
400
What were some items farmers wanted to have change their political situation?
What are low interest loans, coinage of silver, and warehouses to store crops
400
If your grandfather was an eligible voter, you could be too...
What is the Grandfather Clause?
400

a farmers’ organization, launched in 1867, which grew to over 1.5 million members in less than a decade

What is Grange?

500
Immigrants came to America for these reasons...
What are famine, drought, religious oppression, better life, freedom, land, jobs
500
The name for the famous park in New York City
What is Central Park?
500
This would tax people based on how much money they made
What is the graduated income tax?
500
Supreme Court case that legally segregated blacks and whites
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500

The contrast to the spoils system, where political appointments were based on merit, not favoritism

What is civil service?

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