This group was often hired by factory managers to quell strikes.
What is the Pinkerton Detective Agency
100
The term for the idealization of the home as the "woman's sphere".
What is the Cult of Domesticity
100
This was the Atlantic entrance point for immigrants after it was built in 1892.
What is Ellis Island
100
The Spanish/American War was primarily fought over this nation:
What is Cuba
100
This is a type of urban politician who lobbied on behalf of usually immigrant constituents. Often corrupt, stealing money from the public and trading jobs for support.
What is a Boss
200
These are agreements that some employees are required to sign when they are hired, in which they promise not to strike or join a union.
What is a Yellow Dog Contract
200
The idea that inexorable natural laws controlled the social order. "Survival of the Fittest".
What is Social Darwinism
200
He insisted that African Americans should acquire useful skills and patiently wait for racism to end.
Who is Booker T. Washington
200
This group of anti-imperialists counted figures like Mark Twain and William J. Bryan among their ranks.
What is the Anti-Imperialist League
200
This party was associated with advocating for higher protective tariffs.
What is the Republican Party
300
He was the business magnate who used monopolistic practices to control every aspect of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
This Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation and was justified under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v Ferguson
300
Italians, Slavs, Greeks, Jews, Armenians and the Japanese are all examples of this group:
Who are the New Immigrants
300
He was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy until he quit and fought in the Spanish/American War.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
300
This law established standards of merit for a variety of Federal jobs.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act
400
This was the doctrine that the South was an untapped industrial haven.
What is the New South Creed
400
The characters in his books often rose from "rags to riches".
Who is Horatio Alger
400
This music originated with African Americans in the South but became popular after being co-opted by northern whites.
What is Ragtime
400
This piece of legislation renounced any US interest in "sovereignty, jurisdiction or control" over Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment
400
This group of Republicans abandoned James G. Blaine and voted for Grover Cleveland because of the issue of civil service reform.
Who are the Mugwumps
500
This labor organization welcomed all wage earners but declined after a series of unauthorized strikes and when skilled laborers left to create their own union.
What is the Knights of Labor
500
He was the founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. A group whose goal was the ending of gambling and prostitution.
Who is Anthony Comstock
500
This African-American leader challenged the idea that blacks should patiently wait for racism to end.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
500
They were the New York newspaper magnates who competed over readers by using sensationalist journalism.
Who are William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
500
Was a Democratic candidate who alienated many of his supporters with his fervent teetotaling Protestantism.