Senior Soc. St. Chapter Fifteen, Lessons III-V

Vocabulary

100

 the process of acquiring or causing a person to acquire American traits and characteristics.

What is Americanization 

200

the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group.

What is Segregation 

300

a philosophy based on Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, asserting that humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving.

What is Social Darwinism 

400

the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time.

What is Evolution 

500

a note issued by the government that promises to pay off a loan with interest.

What is a Bond 

Vocabulary

100

a tax based on the net income of an individual or business and which taxes different income levels at different rates.

What is Graduated Income Tax

200

a unit of paper currency first issued by the federal government during the Civil War.

What is a Greenback

300

the belief that no matter what a person’s background is, he or she can still become successful through effort.

What is Individualism 

400

a tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote.

What is a Poll Tax

500

different treatment or preference on a basis other than individual merit.

What is Discrimination 

Vocabulary

100

providing money to support humanitarian or social goals.

What is Philanthropy 

200

paper money used as a medium of exchange.

What is Currency

300

an institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English.

What is a Settlement House

400

an ongoing decrease in prices and an increase in the value of money.

What is Deflation 

500

a store where farmers buy products from each other; an enterprise owned and operated by those who use its services.

What is a Cooperative 

Vocab. (minus the 500).

100

an ongoing increase in prices and decrease in the value of money.

What is Inflation

200

to execute, by hanging, without lawful conviction.

What is to Lynch 

300

statutes enacted to enforce segregation.

What are Jim Crow Laws

400

a political movement founded in the 1890s representing mainly farmers that favored free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other large industries.

What is Populism 

500

Society adopted the term “Gilded Age” after the publication of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by ________________________________.

Who is Mark Twain and Charles Warner (please put both). 

Row III

100

Gilded means something is Gold on the outside, but __________________________________.

What is cheaper material on the inside. 

200

• Christians that adapted their religious views to fit with Darwin’s theories are known as _______________________.

What are Christian Evolutionists. 

300

• Lester Frank Ward argued that humans were different from animals because they had the ability to make plans to produce the future; an idea known as ____________________________.

What is Reform Darwinism 

400

_____________________ challenged social Darwinism by suggesting that some people failed in life because they were caught up in circumstances they could not control

What is Naturalism 

500

The ____________________________ worked to better conditions in cities according to biblical ideas of charity and justice

What is the Social Gospel Movement

Row IV

100

• The Salvation Army and the ______________________ combined interest in reform and faith.

What is the YMCA 

200

__________________________ opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889

Who is Jane Addams

300

• ________________________________ founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881.

Who is Booker T. Washington 

400

• With the emergence of Realism, artists sought to portray the world realistically. They would often portray ___________________________________________.

What are ordinary people doing ordinary things. 

500

• Many music publishers and songwriters were located in a place called ________________________ where most made their money by selling sheet music.

Where is Tin Pan Alley

Row V

100

• Children in cities had ____________________ access to education as opposed to children in rural areas.

What is greater/easier access. 

200

• James Naismith created an indoor game called ___________________________ in 1891 as more forms of entertainment began to take off.

What is Basketball 

300

The __________________ system supported the idea of winning candidates taking office and giving jobs to those who supported them in their election

What is the Spoils System 

400

• The split Republican Party consisted of Stalwarts, _____________________ and Reformers.

What are Half-Breeds

500

• The ___________________ Act required that some jobs be filed by competitive written exams, rather than by patronage.

What is the Pendleton Act

Row VI

100

• In 1887, Cleveland signed the ______________________________ Act, first federal law to regulate interstate commerce.

What is the Interstate Commerce Act

200

• The _________________________________ was not very effective because it had to take railroads to court, prove they were violating the law, and ask the court to enforce their ruling.

What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (no acronyms). 

300

The ______________________________ Tariff aimed to protect American industry from foreign competition, instead triggered an increase in the price of all goods

What is the McKinley Tariff 

400

• In 1890, the ____________________________________ Act was passed to curb the power of the large business trusts.

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act 

500

• Post-Civil War there were three types of current in circulation. Greenbacks, gold and silver coins, and _________________________________ backed by government bonds.

What are National Bank Notes 

Row VII

100

• Oliver H. Kelley founded the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867, also known as the ___________________.

What is the Grange

200

• The ________________________ Alliance began to form with Charles W. Macune as its leader.

What is the Farmers' Alliance

300

In July 1892, more than 1,000 delegates met in Omaha, Nebraska to form the ________________________ Party

What is the Peoples' Party 

400

• In August 1896, an American prospector discovered gold near _____________________ in northern Canada.

Where is Klondike

500

______________________ started to appear with hotels, saloons, and storehouses for people making the trek to the gold fields

What are Boomtowns

Row VIIII

100

In 1900, the U.S. officially adopted a gold-based currency with the passage of the _________________________ Act

What is the Gold Standard Act 

200

• The period following the Civil War is known as ________________________.

What is Reconstruction 

300

• Following the words of Pap Singleton, 6,000 African Americans left the rural south and headed to Kansas in what we describe as an exodus, with the migrants referred to as _____________________________.

What are Exodusters

400

• In 1886, the __________________________________________ National Alliance was founded after African Americans were encouraged to form a similar organization to the Farmers’ Alliance.

What is the Colored Farmers' National Alliance

500

• In 1890, Mississippi imposed such voting restrictions as, __________________________________________and __________________________________________.

What is a literacy Test and a Poll Tax of $2

Row IX

100

• Democratic leaders began appealing to ___________________with fear that African Americans would vote for the Populists.

What is Racism 

200

Louisiana introduced the _________________________ Clause that allowed any man to vote if he had an ancestor who could vote in 1867

What is the Grandfather Clause

300

The supreme court case, ______________________________________ established the legal basis for racial discrimination for more than fifty-years

What is Plessy v. Ferguson 

400

• Booker T. Washington gave a passionate address to a crowd of mostly whites in Atlanta known as the ____________________________________, urging African Americans to postpone the fight for civil rights and concentrate on preparing themselves educationally for full equality.

What is the Atlanta Compromise 

500

W.E.B Dubois’s book, ______________________________________ explained why he saw no advantage in giving up civil rights temporarily

What is The Souls of the Black Folk