Gilded Age

Immigration

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?

200

Many immigrants and young children were forced to work in these horrible conditions in small factories.

What are sweat shops?

300

Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.

What is Americanization?

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?

500

A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?

What is nativism?

Urbanization

100

Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;

What are tenements?

200

someone who gives away large sumes of money to build libraries, universities, hospitals, etc., 

What is a philanthropist ?

300

The rise of manufacturing economy and eceline of an agricultural economy

What is industrialization?

400

Unskilled workers who organized for better working conditions and wages

What is Knights of labor?

500

The growth of cities due to the influx of people?

What is Urbanization?

Social Tension

100

The right to vote..

What is suffrage?

200

Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.

What are Jim Crow laws?

300

1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?

Plessy v Ferguson

400

Political cartoons by this individual helped raise awareness of political crorruption.

Who is Thomas Nast?

500

Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

Politics & Economic

100

small companies join together to form one large company usually as a monopoly. 

What is a trust?

200

ensure railroads set "reasonable and just" rate and to regulate businesses such as railroads

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

300

This outlawed business monopolies.

What is the Sherman Anti-trust act?

400

People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms

Who is the Populist Party?

500

Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s

What are Political machines?

Good Luck

100

Labor union for skilled workers to help fight for better working conditions such as 8 hour days, and better pay.

What is the American Federation of Labor?

200

Who were the four capitalist aka captiains of industry or robber barrons? 

Who was Rockefeller, oil?

Who was Carneige, steel?

300

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?

400

established Hull House ( a settlement house in Chicago in 1889.

Who is Jane Addams?

500

Political scandal involving "William Boss Tweed" and the Tammy Hall political machine. 

What is the Tweed Ring Scandal ?