Immigration
Urban Life
Politics in the Gilded Age
Segregation and Discrimination
Miscellaneous
100
Immigrants from this country were banned from 1882 to 1902 after Congress passed an act to exclude them.
What is China (Chinese Exclusion Act)
100
Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe entered through _____________ Island.
What is Ellis Island
100
Political machines exchanged economic favors for what?
What is votes
100
This allowed a white man to vote only if his father or grandfather had been able to vote before 1869.
What is the Grandfather clause.
100
This political party advocated for income tax, bank regulation, government ownership of the railroads and unlimited coinage of silver.
What is the Populist Party.
200
This vocab term says that religious faith should be expressed through good works.
What is the Social Gospel
200
What allowed people to move away from the center of the city and further from their jobs and places of worship?
What is mass transit.
200
Who's Presidency was marred with several scandals?
Who is President Grant
200
The seizure and execution of a person by a mob.
What is lynching
200
Why did skyscrapers develop?
City's were running out of room and needed to build upward. Elisha Otis developed the safety elevator and made it possible to build up.
300
President Roosevelt negotiated a Gentlemen's Agreement to allow immigrants from which country to go to school in San Francisco.
What is Japan
300
Who coined the term Gilded Age?
Who is Mark Twain. Was it accurate??
300
Farmers organized themselves by forming what organization? (not a political party yet)
What is the National Grange
300
This was a special fee that had to be paid before voting.
What is a poll tax.
300
This act was passed to end the Spoils system.
What is Pendleton Civil Service Act. Remember that President Grant was assassinated by a Stalwart, someone that wanted to keep the spoils system. His death indirectly helped bring about the reform of the Civil Service system.
400
They provided immigrants with jobs or help in return for their vote.
Who are political machines.
400
These were crowded urban apartments that had open sewers and attracted disease.
What are tenement houses.
400
He drew political cartoons that drew attention to the political machine headed by Boss Tweed.
Who is Thomas Nast
400
This court case legalized segregation and established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
400
This African American was Harvard trained and thought that African Americans should seek advanced liberal arts degrees and speak out against prejudice.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
500
Many immigrants who came to America were young single men who worked for a number of months or years and then returned home. What was the term for immigrants who were just passing through.
What is a bird of passage.
500
He wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis.
500
This was the name of the famous New York Democratic Political Machine.
What is Tammany Hall.
500
Strict rules of behavior that governed social and business interactions. African Americans were suppose to "know their place."
What is racial etiquette.
500
She founded Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams
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