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100
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
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
100
The right to vote..
What is suffrage?
100
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
100
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
200
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.
What is the Angel Island?
200
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;
What are tenements?
200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

The party of the people: a political party formed in 1891 to advocate for economic reforms like a graduated income tax, abolish the national bank, and more

Who is the Populist Party?

200

this was developed by Henry Ford and it revolutionized production efficiency

What was the assembly line?

300
Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
What is Americanization?
300
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
300
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
300

Law passed during this time that created a system for the federal government to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system ("who you know")

What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?

300

This person argued that Black people should demand full and immediate equality through direct action and speaking out

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

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

This person argued that African Americans needed to learn a trade or a skill and make themselves valuable in society as a way to overcome discrimination

Who is Booker T. Washington?

400

Word for the type of economic system of capitalism in which the government virtually stays completely out of any type of regulation of business

Laissez-faire

400

This woman established Hull House (a settlement house) in Chicago in 1889, and was a pioneer of settlement house work, a precursor to modern day social work.

Who is Jane Addams?

500

A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to immigrants

What is nativism?

500

Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872 and was arrested, and she wrote the draft of the amendment that eventually will pass in 1919 (13 years after her death)

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

500

Major stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad formed a company and gave it exclusive contracts to build the eastern transcontinental railroad; some congressmen exploited their power and were able to use federal subsidies to make a profit under the table

Credit Mobilier Scandal

500
Taking away the right to vote.
What is disenfranchise?