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Use the political cartoon #26 for this item. The setting of this cartoon is _____________.
What is the United States Senate?
100
Andrew Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel industry by doing this.
What is buying out his suppliers, buying out his competitors, and underselling his competitors. But he NEVER cut the quality of his products!
100
This was the main immigration processing station in San Francisco, CA.
What is Angel Island?
100
This is the name for the illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft?
100
They had the same goals as the Americanization movement.
What are settlement houses?
200
Use cartoon #26 for this item. The group of men in the back of the room represent this group.
Who are wealthy monopolists?
200
The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced to benefit _____.
Who are railroad companies and rail travelers?
200
This was the main immigration processing station on the east coast of the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
200
Tammany Hall was the name of _____.
What is a New York City political machine?
200
The main purpose of patronage is _____.
What is to reward one's supporters?
300
Use cartoon #26 for this item. The smaller men in the picture represent this group.
Who are United States Senators?
300
Social Darwinism was used to justify____.
What is the existence of poverty, the success of big business, and the power of millionaire industrialists?
300
This was the main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is to decrease Chinese immigration?
300
He was the head of the Tammany Hall political machine.
What is Boss Tweed?
300
This is an example of graft.
What is saying a project costs more than it did and keeping the difference for yourself?
400
Use cartoon #26 for this item. The main idea/central message of this cartoon is _____.
What is owners of business monopolies control the Senate?
400
Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and others, involves _____.
What is buying out raw material producers and distributors?
400
Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by these people.
Who are social reformers?
400
This is an example of political patronage.
What is appointing a friend to a political position?
400
Jim Crow laws were laws that _____________.
What is separation of the races?
500
Political cartoons influence readers in this way.
What is making political points by using the humorous images and exaggerated actions of cartoons to engage readers.
500
The Interstate Commerce Act gave the right to supervise railroad activities to ____.
What is the federal government?
500
The purpose of settlement houses was to _____.
What is providing aid to recent immigrants and to "Americanize" them?
500
The main interest of the Social Gospel movement was _________.
What is social reform?
500
In Plessey vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that ________.
What is racial segregation in public facilities was legal?