Industrialism
Alexander Graham Bell invented this device that revolutionized communication.
What is the telephone?
After Reconstruction, Southern states used loopholes in the wording of this amendment to bar African Americans from voting in elections.
What is the 15th amendment?
This immigrant group, who entered the US through Angel Island, contributed greatly to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s.
Who were the Chinese?
In exchange for these, political machines provided new city immigrants with jobs, housing, and police protection.
What are votes?
This philosophy argued that society improved through survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
Producing goods more cheaply and efficiently was an advantage of this type of large business over small businesses.
What are corporations?
Booker T. Washington was a civil rights activist who encouraged blacks to pursue this to achieve equality in society.
What is education?
Which group pressured the government to limit or cut off immigration in the late 1800s?
Who are Nativists (or groups like the Know Nothing Party)?
The name for the corrupt organizations that traded favors for votes during the Gilded Age.
What are political machines?
This movement worked to better conditions in cities according to biblical ideals of charity and justice.
What is the Social Gospel movement?
Andrew Carnegie utilized this business strategy to control all aspects of his steel industry.
What is vertical integration?
This civil rights activist founded the NAACP to help achieve equality for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Upon arrival, European and Asian immigrants suffered humiliating physical examinations and often had this changed to sound more American.
What are their names?
What man was known for his political corruption of controlling elections and giving immigrants favors to stay in power?
Because of an increased standard of living due to industrialism, people had more money to spend on this.
What is entertainment?
Supply and demand regulates prices and wages under this economic philosophy.
What is laissez faire?
This female African American journalist launched a campaign against lynching.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The development of large scale production contributed to the dramatic increase in this during the early 1900s.
What is immigration?
Who are the monopolists/robber barons/Rockefeller ...?
In the late 1800s, most immigrants to the United States were from this part of the world.
What are Southern and/or Eastern Europe?
Wages increasing faster than prices gives workers more of this.
What is buying power?
This Supreme Court case upheld the doctrine of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1882 Act prevented an entire ethnic group from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The beginning of a professional government civil service was marked by the passage of this Act.
What is the Pendleton Act?