Vocab
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100

Gentleman's Agreement

Debt Peonage

Tenement

Lillian Wald

1. 1907 agreement between Teddy Roosevelt and Japan to prevent unskilled Japanese workers from moving to the U.S..

2. 1907 agreement between Teddy Roosevelt and Japan to prevent unskilled Japanese workers from moving to the U.S..

3. Rundown, crowded apartment building

4. Founder of the Henry Street Settlement in New York

100

Example of a typical immigrant to the U.S. between 1880 & 1910

A Russian Jew seeking freedom from religious persecution

100

“Immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans and should be sent home.” Example of

Nativism

100

In the late 1800s cities began to build skyscrapers because of two innovations

The safety elevator and steel frames

100

What was the spoils system?


Practice of filling government jobs with the winning political party’s supporters


200

Jane Addams

Social Gospel

Thomas Nast

Theodore Roosevelt

1. Founder of the Hull House (settlement house)

2. Idea that religious faith should be shown through good deeds

3. Political cartoonist who attacked corruption in his newspaper, Harper's Weekly

4. Made Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan to prevent unskilled Japanese workers from immigrating

200

Immigrants from this country declined sharply after acts of Congress banned them

China

200

Grandfather Clauses


Allowed men to vote if they, their father, or their grandfather was able to vote before 1867


200

The social gospel is the idea that


Religious faith should be shown through good deeds and the wealthy have an obligation to society


200


What were the extreme consequences of violating the rules of racial etiquette in the South? (4 pts)


Lynching - murder by hanging without a legal trial

300

Plessy V. Ferguson

Benevolent Society

Racial Etiquette

Chester Arthur

1. Case in which the Supreme Court in favor of separate but equal doctrine for public facilities

2. Aid organization led by residents of a community to assist immigrants

3. Strict rules of behavior that governed interactions between white and African American people

4. Vice president who succeeded James Garfield following his assassination

300

Unlike immigrants in earlier times, most of the immigrants coming to the U.S. between 1880 & 1910 came from

Southern and Eastern Europe

300

Garfield’s assassination indirectly helped to bring about

Civil service reform

300


Rise of the modern corporation contributed jobs in accounting, etc. which increased the urban


Middle Class

300

Purpose of Jim Crow laws

Designed to discriminate against African Americans

Excluding them from railroads, hotels, and theaters

400

Tammany Hall

Dennis Kearney

Elisha Otis

W.E.B Du Bois

1. Corrupt political machine centered in New York

2. Irish immigrant who led the Workingman’s Party, opposed Chinese immigration

3. Inventor of the safety elevator

4. Civil rights leader, encouraged African Americans to fight for full rights immediately

400

Hurdles faced by immigrants at Ellis Island included

Medical Examinations
400


Roosevelt negotiated a Gentlemen’s Agreement to stop the practice of segregating immigrant school children from this country in 1907


Japan

400

What was President Theodore Roosevelt’s controversial social invitation? (4 pts)

Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to a dinner at the White House

Caused headlines due to social interactions of whites & blacks

400

What did the Supreme Court decide regarding segregation in the case of Plessy V. Ferguson?

Ruled that the “separate-but-equal” doctrine didn’t violate the 14th Amendment

Legalized segregation

500

Frederick Law Olmstead

Homer Plessy

William Mckinley

Booker T. Washington

1. Lanscape architect, designed many city parks

2. Sat in whites-only train to test the law

3. Republican, elected president in 1896, supported the Gold Standard

4. African American leader who founded the Tuskegee Institute to teach practical skills

500

Example of a Jim Crow Law


African American children could not attend the same schools as white children


500


Political machines exchanged economic favors for


Votes

500

What kinds of services did political machines provide to immigrants in exchange for votes? (6 pts)

Find jobs

Find housing

Become naturalized citizens

500

How did Booker T. Washington's approach to segregation differ from that of W.E.B Du Bois?

Washington - believed African Americans should accept segregation for the time being


Du Bois - believed in speaking out against prejudice & striving for full rights immediately