powers shared by the states and the national government
What are concurrent powers?
100
business that sells stock, usually to expand
What is a corporation?
100
Organization that controls politics and services
What is a political machine
100
Immigrants who failed a medical inspection upon arrival in the United States might be separated from their families and returned to Europe. (true/false)
What is true
100
Many labor unions opposed immigration for this reason.
What is immigrants would work for low wages.
200
Powers listed in the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
200
giving generously to charitable causes
What is philanthropy?
200
Dark, multi-family apartments in the poor areas of cities that often provide terrible living conditions
What is a tenement?
200
The Chinese Exclusion Act prevented Chinese people already in the United States from becoming citizens. (true/false)
What is true
200
William M. Tweed
Who was the biggest party boss of a political machine?
300
Fundamental powers of government but not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution
What are inherent powers?
300
several business agree to act like one business with a common board of directors
What is a business trust?
300
Favored the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants
What is nativism?
300
With long work hours and the harshness of city life, most immigrants found that their move had not improved their standard of living. (true/false)
What is false?
300
The Workingman’s Party of California was formed for this reason.
What is fight Chinese immigration.
400
Slaves were defined as property not citizens and therefore had no rights in court (court case)
What was the Dredd Scott Case?
400
“let people do as they choose” (economic term)
What is laissez-faire
400
Someone who exposed corruption and poverty and were often journalists.
What are muckrakers?
400
By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants in the United States were from these regions of Europe.
What is eastern and southern Europeans?
400
Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for this.
What are votes?
500
Equal rights for all citizens including due process (amendment)
What is Amendment 14?
500
the best businesses survive improving the overall economy
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Organization that offered practical aid and religious counseling to the urban poor
What is the Salvation Army or YMCA
500
In the mid 1860s, Chinese immigrants came to the United States for this reason.
What is work on the transcontinental railroad?
500
Tammany Hall
What was the largest and most powerful political machine.