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Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
100

This caused farmer's debt to increase

What are declining crop prices?

100
The right to vote..
What is suffrage?
100
Use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
What is the gold standard?
100
He argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
200
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.
What is the Angel Island?
200

an movement of farmers who joined to learn about new farming techniques, to call for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates

What is the Grange Movement?

200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

This president was known for his integrity, in a rough political atmosphere where not much got done

Who is Grover Clevland?

200

This president was assassinated, which led to reform in the civil service industry

Who is James Garfield?

300
Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
What is Americanization?
300

founder of an organization that taught farmers a new farming techniques

Who is Oliver H. Kelly?

300
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
300
The practice of a successful political party giving government jobs to its supporters.


What is the spoils system?

300

Political cartoonist that became famous for exposing corruption (like Boss Tweed)

Who is Thomas Nast?

400
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400

Famous speech at the Democratic National Convention which promoted bimetallism, the use of gold & silver 

What is the cross of gold speech?

400

Argued that African Americans needed to accommodate themselves to segregation and better themselves through vocational school.

Who is Booker T. Washington?

400
People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms
Who is the Populist Party?
400

African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage

Who is Ida B. Wells?

500
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
500

reversed the policy of having the government issue both gold and silver coins, causing protest

What is the Coinage Act of 1873

500
Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
500
This person ran as the Democratic Nominee for president, but lost to William McKinley. He ran on a platform of bimetallism

Who is William Jennings Bryan

500

charging someone money to cast a vote in an election (outlawed by the 24th amendment)

What is a poll tax?