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Immigration
Farmers/Populist
Discrimination
Misc.
Corruption!
100
First wave of Immigrants from WESTERN AND NORTHERN Europe, mainly Protestant Christians
What are the Old Immigrants?
100
This was the political party that formed to represent farmers and the "common people"
What is the Populist Party?
100
Laws that enforced segregation in the south.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
He was a civil rights leader that encouraged education and learning skills to be self-sufficient. Started the Tuskegee Institute
Who was Booker T. Washington
100
The most notorious NYC political boss.
Who is William Tweed?
200
The second wave of Immigrants, coming from EASTERN AND SOTHERN Europe. Mainly Catholics, Jews and Orthodox Christians
What are the New Immigrants
200
This was the greatest success of the National Grange, it lowered rail road shipping rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
This supreme court ruling establishes the seperate-but-equal doctrine.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
200
Cramped housing near factories
What is tenement housing?
200
Using political position to gain power and money dishonestly.
What is grafting?
300
BOTH points of entry during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The first is in New York, the second is in San Francisco, California.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
300
This was the main focus of the Populist Party, they thought it would result in an inflated currency, helpful to indebted farmers.
What is Free Silver?
300
A form of employment that forced Mexican-Americans to stay in low paying jobs to re-pay employers.
What is debt peonage?
300
A place that hosted community events and taught basic skills to the poor and immigrants.
What is a settlement house?
300
The political cartoonist that was critical of Boss Tweed
Who is Thomas Nast?
400
These people helped recent immigrants of the same ethnicity with money, work and food. Once established immigrants were expected to donate back.
What are benevolent societies?
400
This was a big step towards government regulation of the rail roads. The supreme court ruled that FEDERAL regulation was constitutional.
What is Wabash v Illinois?
400
Act that barred Chinese Immigration and citizenship.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Helping others as a spiritual duty to society
What is the social gospel?
400
A system of appointing your friends to political office, rather than the most qualified candidate.
What is the spoils system?
500
These people TARGETED immigrants to win votes.
What are political machines?
500
This act was intended to increase the money supply, it was later repealed by President Cleveland to protect the gold standard.
What is the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
500
Social expectations of African Americans to be submissive towards whites.
What is racial etiquette?
500
This supreme court case allowed STATE governments to regulate rail road commerce.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
500
The scandal that overcharged taxpayers for the building of the transcontinental railroad. It involved congressmen and Vice President Schuyler Colfax.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?