Immigration
Between 1865 and 1914, about how many Europeans immigrated to the U.S.?
25 million
Most immigrants traveled across the Atlantic in which class of accommodations?
Steerage
Which infamous New York political machine was led by Boss Tweed?
Tammany Hall
The Pendleton Act created what reform?
Civil service exams
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Court upheld what doctrine?
Separate but equal
By the late 1890s, most new immigrants were coming from which regions of Europe?
Eastern and Southern Europe
Jacob Riis exposed tenement life in which book?
How the Other Half Lives
What is a political machine?
Informal political group to gain and keep power
The ICC was created by what law in 1887?
Interstate Commerce Act
Which case limited state power to regulate interstate commerce?
Wabash v. Illinois (1886)
What is Nativism?
Extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people
What were crowded, unhealthy apartment buildings called?
Tenements
What was graft?
Getting money through dishonest means
Which 1890 law attempted to ban monopolies?
Sherman Antitrust Act
The decision to stop minting silver in 1873 was known as what?
The Crime of 73
Where were most Asian immigrants processed after 1910?
Angel Island
Which city had the first skyscraper (1885)?
Chicago
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What organization supported farmers starting in 1867?
The Grange
Which 1896 case legalized segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 did what?
Barred Chinese immigration and citizenship
Which Chicago architect advanced skyscraper design?
Louis Sullivan
The assassination of Garfield led to what law?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Which group formed the Populist Party?
Farmers’ Alliances
Which African American leader rejected Washington’s Atlanta Compromise?
W.E.B. Du Bois