Believed wealthy Americans should use their wealth to help people help themselves.
100
Eastern and Southern Europe
What is the home of more than half of all immigrants in the United States by the 1890s?
100
Social Darwinism
What is the application of the theory of evolution and natural selection to human society?
100
Better paying jobs
What is the reason many rural Americans moved to big cities in the late 1800s?
100
King of Ragtime
Who is Scott Joplin
200
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
Who is the former slave behind the mass migration of African Americans.
200
Ellis Island
What is the location where immigrants arriving on the East Coast were processed?
200
engage in philanthropy
What is the responsibility of wealthy Americans according to The Gospel of Wealth?
200
High tariffs, high shipping rates, and deflation
What are ways farmers were hurt economically?
200
Job applicants who performed well on competitive written exams
What is how government jobs were filled as a result of the Pendleton Act.
300
George Plunkitt
Who is one of New York City's most powerful party bosses?
300
Mississippi
What is the state that took the first step to prohibiting African Americans from voting by requiring all citizens registering to vote to pay a poll tax?
300
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is a Supreme Court case that established separate but equal doctrine which established a legal basis for discrimination against African Americans.
300
Populists
What is another name for the People's Party?
300
Chinese Exclusion Act
What is the law that prevented Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. from becoming citizens?
400
Herbert Spencer
Who is the British philosopher that argued society progressed because only the fittest people survived?
400
Cincinnati
What is the home to the first professional baseball team?
400
Ida B. Wells
Who is the African American journalist that launched a campaign against lynching?
400
lower crop prices
What is the result of new technology that helped farmers produce more crops?
400
The Civil Service Act
What is another name for the Pendleton Act.
500
Dwight L. Moody
Who is the social reformer that believed the best way to help the urban poor was to redeem their souls and reform their character?
500
Boston and New York
What are the first two U.S. cities to build subways?
500
A graduated income tax
What is a reform called for by the Populists in the election of 1892?
500
Tuskegee Institute
What is a traditionally black college in Alabama established by Booker T. Washington that made many contributions in agriculture?
500
Civil Rights Act of 1875
What is act that was overturned in 1883 , setting stage for legalized segregation?