Urban Issues
Horsecars, Cable Cars and Subways are examples of _____________________?
Mass transit
Scott Joplin was known as an entertainer who performed this type of music.
Ragtime
Jane Addams and Lillian Ward are associated with this movement that helped the poor.
Settlement House Movement
This famous author coined the term "Gilded Age" which describes this era as a time with the appearance of glamour and glitz, but was really a time of corruption and a widening gap between the rich and the poor
Mark Twain
He worked as undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed in an effort to
Maintain competition in business
The first skyscraper was built in this city?
Chicago
This sport became a popular pastime during this era.
Baseball
Civil Rights leader to started Tuskegee Institute. Taught students to make bricks.
Booker T Washington
This "clause" allowed poor, illiterate whites to vote because they had an ancestor who was allowed to vote in 1867.
Grandfather Clause
Famous early 20th Century Activist that did the following: Led the American Railway Union, Ran for U.S. president five times as the Socialist Party nominee, and cofounded the IWW - the industrial works of the world.
Eugene Debs
The _____ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies but the language was too vague to inforce.
Sherman
An important but corrupt political machine in New York City was?
Tammany Hall
American Gothic and Whistler's Mother were examples of this artistic movement.
Realism
The urban, Christian movement said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
Social Gospel Movement
These laws established insurance funds that employers financed and could be accessed by workers injured on the job.
Worker's Compensation Laws
This Government Agency was designed to regulate interstate commerce.
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?
What is the initiative?
The leader of Tammany Hall was this man?
William "Boss" Tweed
Stage entertainment consisting of various acts (as performing animals, comedians, or singers) was called ___________________.
Vaudeville
This organization, founded by Mary Church Terrell, helps fight discrimination against different races.
NAACP
These are taxes paid by an importer of certain goods. They are designed to promote domestic production of certain goods.
Tariffs
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
18th
Serves as a democratic mechanism that allows individuals to have a voice in choosing who represents their respective political parties BEFORE the general elections.
Direct Primary
Public schools were used to assimilate immigrant children into American culture. This is called __________________________.
Americanization
The manufacture, sale, and consumption of this became officially illegal in 1920.
What is alcohol?
Laws passed that enforced segregation and discrimination in the south were referred to as what?
Jim Crow Laws
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Plessey vs. Ferguson established the concept of _____________________________ which laid the groundwork for racial policies over the next 70 years.
"Separate but Equal"
Initiatives, referendums, and recall elections were supported by the Progressives as ways to increase citizen participation in the
political process.