The legislation that aimed to regulate unfair railroad prices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
100
This is the name of a neighborhood that is composed of primarily one ethnic group.
What is a ghetto?
100
This is a term for a residential community outside a major city.
What is a suburb?
100
This is the term for an unofficial organization that was designed to keep a particular party or group in power over a city. (They were often headed by a political "boss")
What is a political machine?
100
This term describes how people interact with one another in a society. Scientists were looking for a scientific way to study how people live. (Immigrant and American relationships for example)
What is sociology?
200
This practice was in need of reforming due to it only being offered to "preferred customers."
What are rebates?
200
This is where many European immigrants entered the U.S.
What is Ellis Island, N.Y.?
200
This is a form of transportation that allowed commuters to bypass the busy city streets.
What are elevated trains or subways?
200
This is the name of the political boss that controlled Tammany Hall, which was the political club that ran New York City's democratic party.
Who was Boss Tweed or Willam Marcy Tweed?
200
This social reform movement was designed to implement the teachings of Jesus Christ directly to society.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
300
This was the U.S. President who was almost assassinated by Charles Guiteau due to his alleged unfullfilled promise for a government position...sounds like he should have practiced reform instead huh ;-)
Who is President James A. Garfield?
300
This group of immigrants primarily entered the U.S. through California and had a great impact on the railroad industry.
What are Asian Immigrants?
300
This is a low cost apartment that often was overcrowded and dangerous to live in.
What is dumbell tenement or tenement?
300
This famous immigrant from Germany was known for his political cartoons that attacked Boss Tweed and political machines.
Who was Thomas Nast?
300
This policy was based on favoring those born in America over immigrants. (They were fighting hard to restrict immigration.)
What is nativism?
400
This act helped put an end the the Spoils System. (Passed in 1883)
What is the Pendelton Civil Service Act?
400
This act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. (Example of racism toward immigrants.)
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
400
This "flame up" killed over 250 people, left over 100,000 homeless, and was estimated to cause about $200 million in damages. (That's about $2 Billion in today's money!)
What is the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (date optional)
400
This is the term used to describe when a person uses their job in order to gain profit. (This was how many political machines made their money.)
What is graft.
400
This was an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption. (Has ties with prohibition)
What is the Temperance Movement?
500
This famous 1877 Supreme Court Case allowed states to regulate businesses (like railroads) within their borders.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
500
These were two main reasons why many immigrants, like Europeans, were trying to move to America. (A third reason would be economic opportunities.)
What is to escape religious and political persecution?
500
Contagious diseases also swept through these over crowded cities and slums. One such epidemic of yellow fever (Malaria) swept through this famous southern city killing thousands of people.
What is Memphis, TN?
500
This was the name of the publication by Jacob Riis that informed America of the horrors of tenement life and of the struggles faced by immigrants.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
500
With the help of Ellen Gates Starr, this woman help create one of the first settlement homes in Chicago, Illinois.