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A fictional character whose name was used to describe the many ways that African-Americans were segregated and discriminated against after the Civil War.
Who was Jim Crow?
An increase in the value of money because of a sustained decrease in prices.
What is Deflation?
Someone who comes to a new country to establish a new home.
What is an Immigrant?
Ida B Wells spoke out about THIS ACT of violence and murder against African-Americans that was on the rise during this time period.
What is Lynching?
The nickname Mark Twain gave to this time period, where things look nice and shiny on the surface, but they're not so great underneath.
What is the "Gilded Age"?
A woman who set up Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor with basic living needs and education.
Who was Jane Addams?
Organizations that controlled local governments and provided city-dwellers with jobs, housing, food and protection as long as they supported the organization at the ballot box.
What is a poliical machine?
Religious oppression, warfare, poverty and disease are all examples of THIS FACTOR.
What is a PUSH factor?
A fee that voters had to pay in order to vote.
What is a Poll Tax
The use of steel and the invention of the safety elevator allowed the construction of these, making it possible for more people to live and work in the cities.
What are skyscapers?
Someone who applied Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection and evolution to societies, arguing that “survival of the fittest” applied to countries, governments and societies.
Who was Herbert Spencer?
Anti-immigrant movements and societies that formed in reaction to rising immigration were based on THIS IDEA.
What is Nativism?
The location in New York harbor were many immigrants first entered the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
Following the Civil War, former slaves were guaranteed the right to vote with this Amendment in 1870.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Places where the urban poor could find medical care, education and other social support services.
What were settlement houses?
The leader of New York’s political organization throughout the 1860’s and 1870’s until he went to jail.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
The belief that a person’s success in life was based mainly on his or her own talents, commitment, work ethic, and perseverance.
What is Individualism?
The name given to African-Americans who left the deep south to move to Kansas and other farming states.
Who were the Exodusters?
Grandfather clauses, poll taxes and literacy tests were all used in the south following the Civil War to do this.
What is prevent African-Americans from voting?
An approach to art and literature where authors and artists try to portray life in a non-heroic and non-sensational way ~~ as it really exists.
What is Realism?
EITHER ONE OF THE TWO African-American leaders at the time who fiercely disagreed about how African-Americans should pursue equality in society.
Who were Booker T Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
The term used to describe early public schools' focus on teaching children -- especially those of immigrants -- the English language and American history and culture.
What is Americanization?
The REGION of Europe where most immigrants to the United States traditionally came from. (Hint: It's two compass directions put together)
What is NorthWestern Europe?
The 1897 Supreme Court Case Plessy v Ferguson established THIS PRINCIPLE, saying it was okay to provide different accomodations based on race as long as they were the same quality.
What is "Separate but Equal"?
A movement to increase the political power of farmers and others in rural communities.
What is the Grange Movement, or Populism?