Vocab, Yo!
Vocab, Yo! II
Important Peeps
Explain how/why...
Randoms
100
Shares of a corporation's wealth.
What are dividends?
100
Buildings divided into smaller apartments?
What are tenements?
100
This suffragette who risked arrest was often considered the leader of the Women's Suffrage movement.
Who is Alice Paul?
100
Explain how immigrants processed into this country at the turn of the 20th Century.
Passed a health test. Came with enough money to pay for a ticket and entrance. Prepared a letter from home saying they were not a criminal.
100
Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran are all forms of what MAJOR religious faith?
What is Christianity?
200
Organized attacks on towns or groups of people based on religious or ethnic reasons.
What are pogroms?
200
Something deserving of recognition.
What is merit?
200
This was the youngest US President to ever assume office?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
How did women in the United States win the right to vote?
Protests --> in front of the White House and chaining selves to the White House fence Eventually becoming more militant (modeling activities in Britain) Locked up for "blocking" the sidewalk. Suffragettes placed in jail then went on hunger strikes where they were force fed by guards.
200
What are two reasons why nativists were not always accdepting of immigrants?
Different language Different culture Different religion Willing to work low paying jobs.
300
People that believe in preserving the established culture of native born people.
What are nativists?
300
What Supreme Court case created the unrealistic idea of "separate but equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Double Jeopardy: Rode on a "Whites Only" train car in Louisiana - attempted to challenge segregation laws.
Who is Homer Plessy?
300
Double Jeopardy: How did changes come to the meatpacking district (and other food companies)?
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" exposed unsanitary practices. Roosevelt leaked information to the press about unsanitary practices. Creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act by Roosevelt. (Today it is known as the moder FDA.)
300
Most nativists are WASPs. What is WASP an ancronym for?
What are White Anglo Saxon Protestants?
400
Double Jeopardy: The right of a union to negotiate with management for workers as a group.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Often spearheaded by women, this group worked to end the sale of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
400
Emma Lazarus penned this famous poem found at the Statue of Liberty.
What is 'The New Colossus?'
400
Why was life so difficult for people and poverty during the turn of hte 20th century?
Pick pockets Pollution Disease Small living spaces Low pay Poor working conditions
400
Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' is about what issue in the South?
What is lynching?
500
Law that bqanned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the US.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
500
This tragic incident involed women who were trapped inside a building and others jumping to their deaths.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
500
What women was denied a license to practice law in Illinois because of her gender?
Who is Myra Brackwell?
500
Double Jeopardy: How did progressives work to change the "Gilded Age?"
Exposing corruption Passing of the 17th Amendment (allow direct election of senators) Creating primary elections to allow voters to chose candidates. Exposing slum life and hardships for the urban poor (muckrakers)
500
How did steel production aid in the growth of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
Increased railroad production Gave work to iron and coal miners Built tall skycrapers Improved the US economy (selling steel to other parts of the world and reliance on US created steel)
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