Political Corruption
The notorious headquarters of the corrupt Democratic Party in New York.
What is Tammany Hall?
The theory that those in power and wealth had a natural edge on the rest of the "unevolved" populace.
What is Social Darwinism?
The term that refers to the situation where the increase in German and Irish immigrants created animosity in Americans.
What is nativism?
Susan B. Anthony was arrested for this in 1872.
What is casting an illegal vote?
The type of wage and benefit negotiations that were sought by members of unions.
What is collective bargaining?
Voters demanded patronage reform after this President was assassinated.
Who is James Garfield?
The French term that people used to describe free markets.
What is laissez-faire?
Immigrants living in cities tended to live in this oddly formed apartment.
What are dumbbell tenements?
The idea that states like Georgia and Mississippi needed to industrialize and modernize after the Civil War.
What is the New South?
The group that most wanted to increase the money supply from 1865-1895.
Who are farmers?
The immigrants that Jacob Riis documented tended to vote for this metaphorical group in a seemingly automatic way.
What are political machines?
Wabash v. Illinois led to the creation of this act.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
As 19th-century American cities grew in both size and number, the greatest attention to the stark contrast between urban wealth and working-class poverty resulted from this vocation.
Who are journalists?
This government action aimed to break up Indian lands and force assimilation in order to end tribal identities.
What is the Dawes Act?
Throughout the turn of the century, the American Federation of Labor's (AFL) president was this man.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The new addition to newspapers and periodicals that corrupt politicians like Marcy "Boss" Tweed most feared.
What are political cartoons?
The work ethic described in Horatio Alger novels is akin to the famous ethic of this religious group.
Who are the Puritans?
The new migration at the end of the 19th century led to an increase in segregated ethnic communities and distinct migrant enclaves in cities that mostly came from these geographical areas.
What are Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe?
This African American leader championed vocational training for blacks, raised funds from white philanthropists, and sought new career opportunities for blacks to improve their status.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Henry Clews in 1886, was probably referring to 1 of 2 instances that connected unions to violence.
What are the Haymarket Affair or the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
The 1881 act that aimed to end the patronage system in politics.
What is the Pendleton Act?
He used holding companies and horizontal integration to control markets.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
She was instrumental in improving the conditions of immigrants and advancing urban reform primarily through the use of settlement homes.
Who is Jane Addams?
This was the main focus or challenge to the Granger movement.
What are railroad monopolies?
The group that marched on Washington D.C. on May 1, 1894 to demand unemployment reform and $1.50 per day in wages.
What is Coxey's Army?