President Theodore Roosevelt negotiated with Japan to stop the practice of segregating Japanese school children
What is Gentlemen's Agreement
100
Aid organizations formed to help new immigrants in the United States
What is benevolent societies
100
Court case that declared "separate but equal" legal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
What body of water separates France and England
What is the English Channel
200
Corrupt political machine headed by William Tweed
What is Tammany Hall
200
Believed that immigrants were taking American jobs and causing low wages
Who are Nativists
200
What two innovations allowed cities in the late 1800s to grow
What is steel frames and the elevator
200
Law that allowed a white man to vote only if his ancestors had been able to vote
What is the grandfather clause
200
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Hancock
300
Demonstrated that political corruption had reached the highest levels of government
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal
300
Most immigrants coming to the United States from 1880-1910 came from
What is Southern and Eastern Europe
300
Idea that religious faith should be expressed through good works
What is social gospel
300
Write an example of a Jim Crow law
Examples: separate bathrooms, railroad cars, etc.
300
What was the first city in America
What is St. Augustine, Flordia
400
Political party that called for an income tax, bank regulation, and free coinage of silver
What is the Populist Party
400
Banned immigration from a particular country in 1882 and 1902
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
400
The rise of the modern corporation contributed to new professional jobs, increasing the urban ________________
What is middle class
400
Helped found the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and believed in speaking out against prejudice
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
400
What is the largest organ in the human body
What is the epidermis (skin)
500
Three causes that led to the rise of the Populist movment
What is the difficulties of farmers (debt from low crop costs, high equipment prices, and high costs of shipping), the formation of the National Grange, and the formation of the Populist Party
500
Process immigrants had to experience entering Ellis Island
What is background check and medical examination
500
Term coined by Mark Twain to refer to the time frame in history in which the newly wealthy flaunted their fortunes
What is the Gilded Age
500
Six ways in which the political participation of African Americans was discouraged
What is poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, Jim Crow laws, racial etiquette, lynching