Immigration
Designed to keep immigrants from voting
What is a literacy test?
Patronage, Spoils system, and Political ties are all part of what?
What is the Political Machine?
The desire of the Haymarket demonstrators
What is a shorter work day?
Party boss of Tammany Hall in New York City
Who is Boss Tweed?
a political movement where people have a greater say in government
What is the Populism
Immigrants who arrived between 1880-1910 are called?
What is New Immigrants?
The power to make appointments to government jobs and to grant political favors.
What is patronage?
Occurred at the Carnegie Steel Company’s Homestead Steel Works in 1892. The strike culminated in a gun battle between unionized steelworkers and a group of men hired by the company to break the strike. The steelworkers ultimately lost the strike.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This man attempted to expose corruption by drawing some of the first "political cartoons"
What is Thomas Nast?
monetary system in which citizens get gold or silver in exchange for paper currency
What is bimetallism/ Silverites
Bosses gave (provided) social services, jobs, and sometimes housing in return for?
What is their vote?
Constituents is another word for what?
What is immigrant voters?
Started outside Chicago at a sleeping car manufacturing company and quickly grew into a national railroad strike involving the American Railway Union
What is the Pullman Strike of 1894 ?
This man attempted to expose corruption by drawing some of the first "political cartoons"
Who is Thomas Nast?
Poll tax, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause are all examples of...?
What is legalized discrimination?
What was the name of the movement designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture which included teaching English, American history, citizenship, and cooking?
What is Americanization?
Overcharging for a job so the political machine receives kickbacks is called what?
What is graft?
The function is to protect workers’ wages, hours of labor, and working conditions
What is labor unions?
Argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality & he was the co-Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
Two organizations that represented farmers interests
What is National Grange & Famers' Alliance?
What was the agreement between the U.S. and Japan regarding segregation in schools called?
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
This act created the civil service in America as we know it. This act stated that those in power could not simply appoint their "buddies" to government jobs. These people now had to be qualified for those positions.
What is the Pendleton Act?
T/F government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often sided with management and against unions.
what is true?
Strict rules of behavior & “know your place” and defer to whites
What is racial etiquette?
Called for blacks to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”
Who is Booker T. Washington?