American Leisure
A place where middle-class city dwellers went to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city life
What are amusement parks?
Headed by Booker T. Washington, this institute provided African Americans the opportunity to earn teaching diplomas and vocational courses in agricultural, domestic, and mechanical trades.
What is the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute?
Authors of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Who are Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner?
Groups of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about agricultural and rural issues.
What is the Farmer's Alliance?
Inventor of the first department store
Who is Marshall Field?
Jewish immigrants' response to ethnic and racial discrimination at public education institutions.
What are Yeshiva and Brandeis Universities?
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain
What is grafting?
A monetary system in which government would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks.
What is bimetallism?
The rise in literacy rates influenced the popularity of this activity
What is leisure reading?
Mandates a minimum and maximum age for children to attend school.
What are compulsory attendance laws?
Head of Tammany Hall, New York City’s powerful Democratic political machine
Who is William M. "Boss" Tweed?
A political movement in the late 19th century that demanded people have a greater voice in government and sought to advance the interests of farmers and laborers.
What is Populism?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst pioneered this style of writing in their newspapers to captivate readers' attention.
What is yellow journalism?
A place where Native American children were "Americanized"
What are boarding schools?
A group of distillers in Saint Louis decided they didn't like paying taxes on their product so they worked with John McDonald to reduce taxes leading to tax evasion charges
What is the "Whiskey Ring" Grant Scandal?
Founder of the Patrons of Husbandry, which later was called the Grange.
Who is Oliver Hudson Kelley?
This invention was trendy among women in the 19th century. It was so popular that fashion designers created splits in skirts so women were comfortable in using this invention.
What is the bicycle?
These institutes of higher learning were on the rise in the late 19th century. They focused on modern languages, physical sciences, and social sciences.
What are research universities?
A group of corrupt politicians worked under Tweed in defrauding the city.
What is the Tweed Ring Scandal?
The democratic candidate and populist party member who ran for President in 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?