Political Machines
A machine representative who controlled services and jobs
What is a "boss"?
President Hayes and Garfield tried to combat the spoils system through this government service.
What is the civil service?
Professions women start to enter into as their roles change.
What are teachers, nurses, and medicine industry?
The title given to Roosevelt due to his disliking of trust and large corporations.
What is Trustbuster?
The reason many Protestants feared Catholic immigrants.
What is they feared the Catholics would threaten the American way of life?
Another name known for the spoils system
What is Patronage?
This act was passed in 1883 and made people have to pass a qualification exam to apply to a government job
What is the Pendleton Act?
This state was the first to give women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
True or False: Roosevelt was the youngest president in the nations history
What is True?
The reason Americans saw Asian immigrants as a threat.
What is many believed that they would steal American jobs?
The main goal of the bosses.
What is to gain votes for their party?
This amendment was passed in 1912 and provided for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This amendment gave women the right to vote nationally.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is making sure companies had sanitary practices while processing meat in the factory?
The state that made it illegal for Japanese immigrants to buy land
What is California?
True or False: Patronage led to qualified people getting government jobs
What is false?
This man reformed the states electoral system by introducing the direct primary instead of state conventions.
Who is Robert Follette?
This woman founded the Women's National Suffrage Association eventually reaching 2 million members.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Two "acts" that Roosevelt supported as a result of the square deal.
What is the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This group of people were forced to use sharecropping to support their families or take low paying jobs.
Who are African Americans?
Way that the "bosses" gained votes from the the populations
1. Accepted bribes from tenement landlords in exchange for for overlooking violations in city housing codes
2. Received contributions from contractors hoping to do business with the city
3. Accepted kickbacks
4. Buy up worthless land until industry comes through, raises the value, and then sells it for profit
This act aimed to make the railroads charge reasonable rates and also publish those rates
What is the Interstate Act of 1887?
The two reasons given by those opposing women's suffrage.
What are...
1. that “women suffrage would upset society’s “natural” balance
2. lead to divorce and neglected children
The railroad company that was found guilty by the Supreme Court of limiting trade and competition.
What is the Northern Securities Company?
The year the Supreme Court legalized segregation.
What is 1896?