The American immigration station located in the New York Harbor
What is Ellis Island
100
The class which contained terrible poverty, inadequate housing, and 'blue collar' jobs.
What is the working or lower class
100
The term that refers to the period in time from the 1870s to the 1890s where the people in the upper class were extremely wealthy, and lived in incredible excess.
What is the Gilded Age
100
The widely known association founded by W.E.B. Du Bois
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
100
The murder of an individual, usually by hanging, without a legal trial
What is lynching
200
Aid organizations formed to help immigrants
What is benevolent societies
200
The 'white collar' class. This class includes lawyers, doctors, teachers, and accountants.
What is the middle class
200
The president shot and killed during the Gilded Age
Who is President Garfield
200
Strict rules of behavior regarding the social and business interactions between races.
What is racial etiquette
200
The tax that adults had to pay in the South to be able to vote
What is a poll tax
300
The law that banned Chinese immigration for 10 years, passed in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
300
The class was full of 'new money' from industry and business, women did not typically work, and housing was extravagant.
What is the wealthy or upper class
300
The coalition of farmers, labor leaders, and reformers was commonly known as this
What is the Populist Party
300
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to teach African Americans practical skills for self-sufficiency
Who is Booker T. Washington
300
The clauses put into constitutions by southern legislatures that stated a man could vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867
What are the grandfather clauses
400
An exam issued to immigrants to determine whether they could read english
What is a literacy test
400
The idea that religious faith should be expressed through good works
What is Social Gospel
400
The most notorious political machine, lead by William Marcy Tweed in the 1860s.
What is the Tweed Ring
400
Series of laws passed by southern states that were designed to create and enforce segregation
What are the Jim Crow laws
400
The system brought form Mexico where workers were tied to their jobs until they could pay off debts they owed their employer.
What is debt peonage
500
Agreement with Japan that prevented unskilled Japanese workers from immigrating to the US.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement
500
A place where volunteers provided a variety of services to people in need, founded in London in 1884.
What is a settlement house
500
The first major famers' organization was the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, more commonly known as what?
What is the National Grange
500
The court case that ruled "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment