First professional baseball team was?
Cincinnati Redstockings
Most immigrants coming to America from Asia after 1910 passed through where?
Angel Island
Who was an athletic director for a college in Massachusetts, invented a new indoor game called basketball?
James Naismith
Most immigrants coming to America from Europe between 1892 and 1954 passed through where?
Ellis Island
The laws passed by southern states that enforced discrimination based on race were called?
Jim Crow Laws
Formerly enslaved African Americans who moved to Kansas in 1879 were known as what?
Exodusters
Lester Frank Ward promoted what idea in his book Dynamic Sociology?
Reform Darwinism
What movement dominated art and literature between 1870 – 1900?
Realism
What is the idea that no matter how humble their origins, Americans could rise in society and go as far as their talent and commitment would take them?
Individualism
Nativism led to the founding of what group who vowed not to hire or vote for Catholic immigrants?
American Protective Association
What movement worked to better conditions in cities according to the biblical ideals of charity and justice?
Social Gospel
What was Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Clemens
Some industrial leaders used Social Darwinism to justify their support of what?
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
President Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the what with Japan to limit Japanese immigration in exchange for ending “Oriental Schools” in the San Fransico.
Gentlemen's Agreement
In what court case did the Supreme Court legalize segregation in “separate but equal”?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What was a movement to increase farmer’s political power and work for legislation in their interest?
Populism
Who was the influential educator that proposed that African Americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than political ones?
Booker T. Washington
Who was the second president in U.S. history to be assassinated in office?
President James A. Garfield
Idealistic reformers established what in poor, often heavily immigrated neighborhoods which served as community centers?
Settlement Houses
What act prohibited large business from combining into trusts that restrained trade among the States?
What were 4 advantages that cities offered that rural area could not?
More & Better Paying Jobs
Modern Plumbing
Electricity
Entertainment
What were 4 disadvantages to living in the cities between 1860 and 1910?
Crime
Violence
Fire
Disease
Pollution
To help move people around in the cities more quickly Chicago responded by building what?
Elevated Railroads
Southern States tried to keep African Americans from being able to vote by what two restrictions?
Poll Taxes
Literacy Test
What act required that some government jobs be filled by competitive written exams, rather than by patronage.
Pendleton Act