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Immigration
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Consumption Patterns
Fight for Rights
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100
What is the name of the Island that Immigrants from Europe traveled to enter the United States?
What is Ellis Island
100
Who was the "Father of Ragtime"
Who is Scott Joplin
100
What is conspicious consumerism?
When people but the many new products on the market because of a want, not a need.
100
Joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton to form the NWSA to fight for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony
100
What was the Spoils System?
What is elected officials appointing friends and supporters to government jobs, regardless of their experience or qualifications
200
What is the name of the Island that immigrants from Asia traveled to enter the United States
What is Angel Island
200
Who wrote the novel "The Gilded Age" to show that American society was gilded in a satirical way?
Who is Mark Twain
200
Who created Macy's in 1858?
Who is Rowland H. Macy
200
Unwritten laws that kept Whites & Blacks segregated.
What are the Jim Crow Laws
200
Democratic Presidential candidate who lost to William McKinley in 1896 & 1900, and received support from the Populist Party
Who was William Jennings Bryan
300
Who wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives"?
Who is Jacob A. Riis
300
This sport was looked down upon by the middle class, because it was seen as too violent, corrupt, and not gentlemanly
What is boxing
300
Why would Department Stores trademark their logos?
What is so consumers would easily recognize their logos/brand
300
What was the Supreme Court's Ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson
What is "Seperate but Equal"
300
Political cartoonist that showed corruption in politics and was responsible for bringing down Boss Tweed.
Who was Thomas Nast
400
What is the term for passengers who traveled in terrible conditions to the United States?
What is steerage
400
Painted a medical operation to show the advances in science & technology in America society
Who is Thomas Eakins
400
What is Mass Culture?
What is when Americans become more alike in their consumption patterns because of transportation, communication, and advertising
400
Who brought attention to the horrors of lynching in the South during the Gilded Age?
Who is Ida B. Wells
400
Republican President that ended the Spoils System by passing the Pendleton Civil Service Act in 1883.
Who was Chester Arthur
500
Name three results from immigration in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What is Poverty, Violence, Pollution, Crime, Discrimination, Segregation
500
Was a theatrical genre of entertainment that had a combination of musical dramas, songs, and off-color comedy.
What is Vaudeville
500
Why did Americans start to have Higher Standards of Living?
Because Americans began to measure success by what they could buy
500
Believed that African Americans should demand full and immediate equality, and should not accomodate to segregation.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois
500
What did Jacob S. Coxey organize? And to Where?
What is "Coxey's Army" and to Washington D.C.