Significant Events
Social doctrines
People and places
Politics
Mixed bag
100
This federal law suspended Chinese immigration for ten years. The was renewed in 1892 for another ten years, and in 1902 Chinese immigration was permanently banned.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
100
The belief that only the fittest in society are to survive in the human political and economic struggle.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
From 1892 to 1954, it served as the primary entry point for some 12 million people immigrating to the United States of America from all around the world.
What is Ellis Island?
100
A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates political appointments.
What is a political boss?
100
Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived in, often with little sanitation or safety.
What is a tenement?
200

This law was passed largely in response to public demand that railroad operations be regulated. The act also established a five-member enforcement board known as the Interstate Commerce Commission. It also made the railroads the first industry to be federally regulated in U.S. history.

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

200
A reform crusade led by Protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor.
What is the Social Gospel movement?
200
The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay between 1910 and 1940.
What is Angel Island?
200
Political oration by William Jennings Bryan that denounced the gold standard delivered at the Democratic National convention in Chicago in 1896.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
200
A fee of a fixed amount that had to be paid before a person could vote.
What is a poll tax?
300
Landmark U.S. legislation establishing the tradition and mechanism of permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on political party affiliation (the spoils system).
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883?
300
A sociopolitical policy, especially in the United States in the 1800s, favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
300

An African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the U.S. in the 1890s.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

300
First federal agency in U.S. history that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
300
The separation or isolation of a race, class or group.
What is segregation?
400

This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the states across the country.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

400
Population shift from rural areas to the cities.
What is urbanization?
400
Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
A political movement that champions the common person usually by opposing large business and financial interests.
What is populism?
400
Settlement house opened by Jane Addams in Chicago, Illinois that served as a place for immigrants with educational and artistic programs.
What is the Hull House?
500

This landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision declared that states could not regulate commerce that went beyond their boundaries. Instead, regulation had to come from the federal government. The decision provided the basis for the formation of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887.

What is Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois?

500
The time between the Civil War and World War I in which there was rapid economic growth but was also characterized by corruption, materialism, monopoly businesses and growing inequality..
What is the Gilded Age?
500
A political organization with the Democratic Party in New York City seeking political control through corruption.
What is Tammany Hall?
500
A form of political corruption involving the acquisition of money in dishonest ways, primarily through bribery.
What is graft?
500
Represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
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