Gilded Age

Immigration

100

Point of entry for immigrants arriving from Europe

What is Ellis Island?

200

Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.

What is Angel Island?

300

Programs and activities designed to prepare foreign-born residents of the United States to be full citizens.

What is Americanization?

400

This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

500

A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?

What is nativism?

Urbanization

100

The growth of cities due to the influx of people?

What is Urbanization?

200

Massive buildings that cropped up in cities due to industrialization.

What are skyscrapers?

300

Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;

What are tenements?

400

Many immigrants settled in large cities for work opportunities, such as New York City, San Francisco, and this Great Lakes city that boasted the fastest growing population

What is Chicago?

500

The idea that the wealthy have a responsibility to pay for programs that assist the less fortunate

What is the Gospel of Wealth?

Social Tension

100

The right to vote; in 1920, women gained this

What is suffrage?

200

Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.

What are Jim Crow laws?

300

1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities

Plessy v Ferguson

400

This was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.

What is Social Darwinism?

500

Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

Politics & Economic

100

A more negative term for captains of industry such as Rockefeller or Carnegie

What is "Robber Baron?"

200

Well-organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s

What are political machines?

300

A federal law designed to regulate interstate trade and to limit the power of the railroad industry

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

400

Political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms, also called the People's Party

Who is the Populist Party?

500

Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.

What is the Pendleton Act?

Good Luck

100

Term applied by Mark Twain and Charles Warner in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.

What is the Gilded Age?

200

This invention, credited to Alexander Graham Bell, would facilitate communication in a way that led to the growth of businesses

What is the telephone?

300

This state became the first in the country to allow women to vote in all elections

What is Wyoming?

400

This populist candidate (running as a Democrat) ran three unsuccessful campaigns for president. They were also unsuccessful in their campaign against evolution.

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

500

This invention, credited to Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company, revolutionized how goods would be manufactured and distributed in the United States

What is the assembly line?