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Immigrants
Urbanization
Politics in the Gilded Age
Chapter 15 trivia
Segregation and Discrimination
100
Groups that came to America in larger numbers in the late 1800s to early 1900s
Who are Roman Catholics, Jews, and Eastern Orthodox peoples?
100

Where immigrants and farmers were settling or moving to

What are cities?

100

Leader of Tammany Hall in the 1860s ... who cheated the city of New York out of an estimated 30-200 million dollars.

What is William Marcy "Boss" Tweed?

100

These peoples were embraced by politcal machines as a means of winning elections.  

Who are immigrants

100

Separating people on the basis of race

What is segregation?

200

Thought to be job-stealers, opium smokers, and difficult to assimilate. 

Who are the Chinese?

200
Originally intended as single family dwellings for workers, but later are overcrowded and allowed to become rundown
What are row houses?
200

Illegal use of political influence or office for personal gain.

What is graft?

200

Influential in the settlement house movement, this activist founded Hull House

Who is Jane Addams?

200

Allowed poor and uneducated whites to vote without concern of the poll tax or other obstacles

What are grandfather clauses?

300
Main immigration station located off of San Francisco
What is Angel Island?
300
Multi-family apartments, unsanitary, crowded, unsafe ...
What are tenements?
300

Groups of people that political machines courted or tried to win over to help them win elections.

What are immigrants?

300

The notion that your soul could be saved by helping those who were less fortunate than yourself

What is the Social Gospel Movement

300

Believed racism would end over time, and in the meantime African Americans should become self-sufficient by learning practical work skills and operating Black owned businesses

Who is Booker T. Washington?

400
Favoring of native-born Americans, call for limitations on immigrants entering the U.S. and potential literacy requirements
What is Nativism?
400
Electric trolleys and street cars, elevated trains ...
What is mass transit?
400

Famous political cartoonist who especially drew for Harpers Weekly.  His cartoons shed light on the problems during Reconstruction as well as Gilded Age politics.

Who is Thomas Nast?

400

Opened the first department store in America in the city of Chicago.  Came up with the idea of the bargain basement.  "Give the lady what she wants."

Who is Marshall Field?

400

Believed in Rights now!  And that access to higher education and voting should be available to All races.  His book was the Souls of Black Folk.

Who is W.E.B DuBois?

500
Deal between T.R.'s admin. and Japanese gov. to limit unskilled workers coming to U.S. in return for San Francisco school being desegregated.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
500
Ground breaking book that showed how the poorest of New Yorkers were living.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
500

Political machine that dominated NYC politics in the Gilded Age.  It was aligned with the Democratic Party.

What is Tammany Hall?

500

A type of theater that had something for everyone--song, dance, comedy, pet acts ...

What is Vaudeville?

500

Supreme Court case established the doctrine of "separate, but equal."

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?