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Giving out government jobs as a reward for political and financial support.
What is Patronage?
100
When one group has control over several business firms, usually in the same industry.
What is a monopoly?
100
Supreme Court case in 1896 the declares the idea of "Separate but Equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
100
Large Scale intro of manufacturing and industry in an area that used to be based off agriculture.
What is Industrialization?
100
Founded the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
200
1870-1900, rapid economic growth and industrialization, but poverty and corruption. What is the name of this era?
What is the Gilded Age?
200
The grange was angered, and rallied enough people to make the government lower the railroad prices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
Annual tax that a person had to pay before he could vote.
What is Poll Tax?
200
What is Urbanization?
Growth of Cities, and influx of immigrants in cities.
200
3,000 people gathered in Chicago square to protest police brutality and someone threw a bomb, a riot broke out. Looked bad for labor movement.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
300
What is the piece of legislation that stated, to get a federal job, a person must pass a competitive test?
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883.
300
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
1890, Made it illegal to form a trust(monopoly).
300
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Bois?
Washington stated racism would end when black people acquired education in useful labor skills. Bois established the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
300
Who and is Jane Addams and what is Ellis Island?
Jane Addams, ran the Hull House that provided housing and education for immigrants. Ellis Island was where immigrants went through processing to be admitted into the U.S.
300
What is the Pullman Strike and who broke it up?
Panic of 1893, half the employees got laid off, strike got violent, and President Grover Cleveland broke it up.
400
What is a Political Machine, what is the most famous one,and who is the boss of the most famous one?
What is an organized group that controlled the political party in a city. Tammany Hall is the biggest one, in New York City, and the boss was Tweed.
400
Name all three of Entrepreneurs of this time, and what they business they participated in.
What is Andrew Carnegie, owner of Carnegie Steel Company, John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Company, and J.P Morgan, Chase Back.
400
Give examples of voting legislation that was created that limited non-white people in America and what did they do?
The Literacy Test, test of reading/writing, Grandfather Clause, stated man could vote if grandfather was eligible, and Poll Tax.
400
What is Nativism and give an example from this time period.
Favoritism towards native born Americans, and the Chinese Exclusion Act is an example.
400
Name all three Labor Unions and their policies/requirements.
Knights of Labor, Inclusive,all workers allowed to join,wanted 8-hours workday,equal pay for men & women. American Federation of Labor, white skilled men workers, wanted basic needs met. Industrial Workers of the World, radicals/wobblies, wanted government control of business and property.