Gov't actions
Immigration
Gilded Age
Populists
Miscellaneous
100
the idea of the farmers that regulated railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission
100
the term for those who dislike immigrants or foreigners
What is a nativist?
100
Author who created this term
What is Mark Twain
100
name of organization of farmers that is still around today and started in 1867.
What is the Grange?
100
Connected NYC with the Great Lakes and helped with shipping goods from and into the country in the mid 1800s.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
First act passed to try to regulate monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
Places in cities designed to help immigrants
What are settlement houses?
200
term to describe the migration of people from the countryside to the cities
What is urbanization?
200
farmers who lost their land had to farm on land of others and became this
What is a tenant farmer?
200
Groups who had similar problems and joined forces in the Populist movement.
Who are farmers and industrial workers?
300
This promoted industrialization through "inaction"
What is practiced laissez-faire in the late 1800s?
300
Two main ports of entry by immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
300
where poor families in the cities lived
What are tenements?
300
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesolta passed laws to regulate these.
What is maximum rates for shipping freight?
300
Old immigrants, before the Civil War, were mostly from this region
What is northern and western Europe?
400
Passed by Congress to get rid of the Spoils system
What is the Civil Service Act?
400
term to describe the immigrants of the late 1800s from southern and eastern Europe.
What is new immigrant?
400
Pictured as the "bosses of the Senate" in a cartoon showing corruption
What are the large trusts?
400
Name of the political party organized by the farmers
What is the Populists?
400
the desire of farmers for the gov't to produce silver coins to help raise prices
What is "free silver"?
500
The Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" was constitutional and did not violate the 14th amendment in this case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Act passed to keep the Chinese from entering the United States in the late 1800s.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
President who was shot because he did not participate in the spoils system?
Who is Garfield?
500
Candidate of 1896 - both for the Democrats and Populists
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
These targeted immigrants for votes and controlled cities. They were very corrupt.
What are politcal party machines?
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