Vocabulary
one who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality
Who is an immigrant?
The growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
This was the name given to tall, steel-frame buildings in the growing U.S. cities.
What are "skyscrapers?"
This was the name given to the time in American History from 1870 thru 1900.
What was the Guilded Age?
This political jobs system occurred when a new administration fired all of the old workers and replaced them with people who had helped them win the election.
What was the "Spoils System?"
A provision in a law or regulation that exempts certain individuals, businesses, or entities from new rules or requirements based on pre-existing conditions.
What is Grandfather Clause?
Famous leader of the populist party.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
the person in control of a political machine
Who is a party boss?
Jews left Russia to emigrate to the US in order to escape this.
What is religious persecution?
Cities were filthy with garbage and food waste, Political corruption (fraud, cheating, dishonesty), Crime.
What are problems with urbanization?
Cartoonist who criticized Boss Tweed through cartoons, leading to Tweed’s crimes being exposed and Tweed’s arrest
Who is Thomas Nast?
Law that required people to pass a test before they could become a government employee.
What is Pendleton Service Act?
Mississippi also instituted this, requiring voters to read and understand the state constitution.
What was a literacy test?
This was the idea that some people fail in life because circumstances are beyond their control.
What is naturalism?
Farmer organization that educated farmers on new farming techniques and fought for government regulation of railroad prices.
What is the grange?
This was the processing center for new immigrants located in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
Basing the value of the dollar off the value of gold.
What was the gold standard?
In 1886, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway v. Illinois that only the federal government could regulate this.
What was Interstate commerce?
This is the term that defines the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
What is segregation?
This group formed to replace the Grange.
What was the Farmers Alliance?
an ongoing decrease in prices and an increase in the value of money
What is deflation?
These were multifamily apartments, usually dark, crowded, and barely meeting minimum living standards
What were tenements?
Many Democrats thought that Congress should cut these because they raised the price of imported goods
What are tariffs?
In 1896, the Supreme Court, in this case, upheld the Louisiana law and the doctrine of “separate but equal” facilities for African Americans. The ruling established the legal basis for discrimination in the South for more than 50 years.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Organization that ran cities through corruption, graft and providing jobs in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
a tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote
What is a poll tax?
Improper sewage disposal contaminated drinking water and led to the spread of this disease.
What was typhoid fever or cholera?
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 was Populism?
This man was the political boss who worked out of Tammany Hall in New York City.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
The belief that silver, as well as gold, should be used in US money.
What is Bimetallism?
Event that caused the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act, which weakened the spoils system?
What is the assassination of President Garfield?