Civil Rights
People who left Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi for Kansas in a mass migration were known as
Exodusters
This law cut taxes on tobacco and sugar imports, but increased them on textiles.
McKinley Tarriff
This artist painted everyday activities in realistic detail, like in "The Old Musician."
Edouard Manet
This belief could be summed up as "Adapt or Die!"
Social Darwinism
This organization focused on helping industrial/factory workers and the urban poor through bible studies, citizenship training and group activities.
The YMCA
This 'clause' allowed poor whites to vote without having to pay a poll tax or pass a literacy test.
Grandfather Clause
A type of tax that taxes higher earners more heavily.
Graduated Income Tax
In this novel, the title character and his friend, Jim, an escaped slave, float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The belief that no matter where you start in life, you can rise in society as far as your talents can take you.
Individualism
This movement worked to better conditions in cities through charity and justice. It also inspired churches to take on new community functions.
Social Gospel
This African American advocate was quoted as saying "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly...."
Booker T. Washington
This movement worked to increase farmers political power and to work for legislation in their interest.
Populism
These places offered working-class men drinks, water for their horses, free newspapers and even salty food called the 'First Lunch.'
Saloons
This Stephen Crane novel tells the story of a girl's descent into prostitution and death.
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
This woman opened the famous Hull House in Chicago. It was a place that offered everything from medical care to English classes to kindergartens.
Jane Addams
In 1892, this African American man was arrested for riding in a "whites-only" railroad car.
Homer Plessy
An increase in the value of money and a decrease in prices.
Deflation
An African American composer known as "The King of Ragtime."
Scott Joplin
In the novel "Looking Backward," this writer creates a perfect society with no crime, poverty or politics. His ideas were essentially a form of socialism.
Edward Bellamy
These types of schools divided students into grades and drilled them in punctuality, neatness and efficiency.
Grammar Schools
This Anti-Lynching advocate also formed the Women Wage-Earners Association, which assisted African American nurses, waitresses and domestic workers.
Mary Church Terrell
Marketing organizations that try to increase prices and lower costs for their members.
Cooperatives
In the writing style known as Naturalism, this novel painted a world where people sinned without punishment and the pursuit of wealth and power often destroyed their character.
Sister Carrie
In his book Dynamic Sociology, this writer argued that humans were different than animals because they had the ability to make plans to produce the future outcomes they desired.
Lester Frank Ward
This alliance produced a list of demands and promised to vote for candidates who supported those demands.
People's Party