Immigration
What specific immigrant group was (mostly) excluded from entering the US in 1882:
Chinese Immigrants
What problem were labor unions trying to solve?
Poor working conditions, long hours, low wages, the wealth gap
What is the key term for complete (or near complete) control of the entire supply of goods or of a service in a certain area or market?
Trust or Monopoloy
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
What was the Great Migration?
The relocation of six million Black Americans from the South to the North, Midwest, and West from 1917-1970.
Why were Chinese immigrants excluded from the US? Give TWO reasons
Racism/white supremacy and competition for jobs
What problem was the Pure Food and Drug Act trying to solve?
Lack of inspection in food industries
What is the key term for a person who has become rich through ruthless and immoral business practices?
Robber Baron
What amendment gave all men, regardless of race, the right to vote?
15th
Name ONE push factor and ONE pull factor during the Great Migration
Push:
- lynchings
- harsh treatment for sharecroppers
- poor crop seasons (boll weevil)
- lack of justice
Pull:
- job opportunities
- education
- voting
- justice system
What was a major pull factor for immigrants during the Gilded Age?
- Job opportunities in factories
What movement emerged to reduce “human suffering” and flaws in society, according to the group in power?
Eugenics
What is the belief that hard work & wealth showed God’s approval and those that were poor were LAZY and naturally a LOWER class?
Social Darwinism
What strategies did the women's suffrage movement use? Name two!
- picketing
- parades
- speeches
- civil disobedience (breaking the law)
- demonstrations
How was the 2nd KKK different from the first?
Expanded hate: anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, anti-semitic
Expanded geographically
5 million members
North AND South
What challenges did immigrants face during the gilded age? Name TWO.
- Economic Hardships - poverty, low wages
- Nativism
- Cultural/Language Adjustments
- Job Restrictions
- Poor Living Conditions
What problem was trust-busting (led by muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and politicians like Teddy Roosevelt) trying to solve?
Lack of regulation of big businesses
What is the key term for a business leader whose means of building their personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way?
What major conflict (around the world) took place during the women's suffrage movement that helped them succeed?
World War I
What idea was on trial during the Scopes trial? ____ vs. _____
Teaching evolution vs. teaching the bible
What is nativism?
The idea that people born in a country are desire more rights, jobs, etc.
What problem was the Settlement House movement (Jane Addams) trying to solve?
Lack of government welfare programs for the poor and immigrants
Name two inventions from the Gilded Age
- Lightbulb
- Electricity
- Telephone
- Typewriter
- Railroad
- Phonograph
- Automobile
Did all American women gain the right to vote after the passage of the 19th amendment?
No...
While the 19th Amendment guaranteed the FEDERAL right to vote for all women, like other laws during the Jim Crow Era - not all women were actually allowed to vote after 1920
1924 - Indigenous women gain suffrage
1943-1952 - Asian Americans get anti-citizenship laws revoked and gain voting rights
1965 - Voting Rights Act outlaws all exclusionary voting practices
What caused Prohibition?
WWI
Conserve grain/Sober workforce
Strengthening Women’s Movement
Xenophobia
Germans bringing brewery business