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Random Trivia
100
No government interference in the economy is called?
Laissez Faire Economics
100
True or False:
Grover Cleveland supported labor unions.
False
100
What economic practice in the south contradicts the idea of a "New South" that has done away with slavery?
Sharecropping
100
What type of housing was most commonly used during the industrial era in large cities?
Tenement Housing
100
What are the first names of my two children?
Henry & Charlie
200
Following the Civil War, advocates of a "New South" wanted what to happen to the southern economy?
For it to become industrialized
200
Which party was called the "people's party" and worked to fix the concentration of power being held by the elites?
The Populist Party
200
When Native tribes were moved to reservations, what was the federal governments goal in regards to the children of the tribes?
Assimilation-boarding schools
200
The idea that you are born into your socioeconomic position in society and you cannot change it...survival of the fittest does not just apply to nature.
Social Darwinism
200
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007
300
The idea that corporations and the upper class have a responsibility to philanthropy.
Gospel of Wealth
300
What did the U.S. do that extended their influence in the Pacific?
Overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy
300
The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was what?
Facilities can be segregated by race if they are "separate but equal"
300
Policy of protecting the interests of a country's citizens over the interests of immigrants
Nativism
300
In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever issued by the U.S. federal government?
Woodrow Wilson
400
Railroad companies were given what from the federal government to help with their development and grow infrastructure?
Federal Subsidies
400
What act created a competitive examination for federally appointed jobs rather than a patronage system (Patronage is where someone gets appointed because of their support during a campaign)
Highest scores on the exam, got the job
In response to the assassination of President James Garfield
Pendleton Act of 1881
400
Name one black civil rights leader/advocate during this time period?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Henry Turner
Booker T Washington
Ida B Wells
400
Who was the most famous leader of Tammany Hall, a NYC political machine?
Bonus Points: Tell me the relationship political machines, like Tammany Hall, had with poor people in cities?
Boss Tweed
400
Who was the first and the only president to be sworn in by his nickname?
Jimmy Carter
(James Earl Carter Jr.)
500
What is the French word for the ultra rich upper class?
Bourgeoisie
500
What legislation banned any further Chinese immigration to the U.S.?
(100 extra points for the year it was passed)
(100 extra points for the President who passed it)
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
Chester Arthur
500
What act gave Native Americans citizenship if they denounced their tribe & took up residency on 160 acres of land that was held in trust by the government for 25 years?
The Dawes Act
500
What were the establishments that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, housing, and employment resources?
100 Bonus Points: Name the famous woman who established these in Chicago
Settlement Houses
Jane Addams
500
Who was the only man to be elected twice as U.S. Vice President and twice as President of the United States?
Nixon served as Vice President to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953-1961 and was elected President in both 1968 and 1972.