Politics
What term did Mark Twain coin to describe the post-Reconstruction era from 1877-1900?
What is the Gilded Age
Where was the major reception center for European immigrants located?
What is Ellis Island?
What was the term for low-cost apartment buildings designed to house as many families as possible?
What is tenement Housing
Who was the president that freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who is Abe Lincoln
What pet do I have?
What is a Cat
What was laissez-faire policy
What is Government playing a limited role in business
What act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country until 1943?
What is the Chinese Exclusion act?
Who wrote "How the Other Half Lives" to expose tenement conditions?
Who is Jacob Riis
What was a major issue of the Civil War?
What is slavery SPREADING in the USA. (Slavery moving west)
What year did I graduate high school?
What is 2017
What is the Spoils System? Was it an honest way to bring people into politics?
What is promoting friends or "allies" - does not matter qualifications. Does not seem fair/ great for running government
What made immigrants want to come to America? (2 specific examples)
What is...
Rumors of Gold
Wanting wealth
Personal Freedoms
Receiving government land from Homestead Act
What was the fire that destroyed 18,000 buildings?
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
What was one major goal of reconstruction?
What is: enter union back into south, allow African Americans to society
What is my favorite cartoon?
What is the Powerpuffgirls
Who Refused to use the Spoils System
What was the experiece of immigrating here like? give two specific things you might experience on the trip over.
What is: lack of food, access to BR, privacy,
It was not expensive
What are Ghettos? Why would Ghettos form?
What are: neighborhood of one ethnic group dominating an area.
What is so people with similar values, language cultural experiences and traditions stay together
What was ONE effect of industrialization?
What is:
People moving to cities, slums emerging, overcrowding, (other options available), more inventions, people moving out of farms
Where am I from?
What is Connecticut?
Bonus: Cromwell (town)
Why did Chester A. Arthur end the Spoils system?
What is Cleveland got shot for passing someone up for a promotion
Why did labor unions fight to exclude Chinese Immigrants?
They worked for too little and affected the pay for everyone
What was the purpose of restrictive covenants in urban areas?
What is To prevent certain groups from buying property
What was the laws that restricted African Americans named?
What kind of car do I drive?
What is Honda CRV?