Most immigrants passed through this tiny island in New York Harbor to be processed.
What is Ellis Island?
100
These multifamily apartments are usually dark, crowded, and barely met minimum living standards.
What is a tenement?
100
Laws enacted to enforce segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
This president split his party by trying to get rid of the spoils system.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
100
This prolific writer was famous for his "rags-to-riches" stories, that included the Pluck and Luck series.
Who is Horatio Alger?
200
This law barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
Mark Twain, with his use of local dialects, was an example of this art and literary movement.
What is Realism?
200
IN 1890, Mississippi instituted this requirement for all citizens registering to vote.
What is a poll tax?
200
The first national farm association. Worked to pressure government for more railroad regulation, reduced competition between farmers, and created cooperatives.
What is the Grange?
200
This Darwinist argument, stating that species that adapt to their environment survive while those that don't die out, was adapted to human society by Social Darwinists.
What is natural selection?
300
Increased feelings of hostility towards immigrants by native born people.
What is nativism?
300
This art and literary movement challenged the idea of Social Darwinism by suggesting that some people fail in life simply because they were caught up in circumstances they could not control/
What is Naturalism?
300
This supreme court case tested segregation statutes in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The political party formed by the Farmers Alliance.
What is the Peoples Party?
300
This Christian movement argued that the biblical ideals of charity and justice meant helping the poor.
What is Social Gospel?
400
By the late 1890s, more than half of all immigrants to the U.S. were from these two regions.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe?
400
The period between 1870 and 1900 in America was given this name, based off of a novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Warner.
What is The Gilded Age?
400
Convinced that African Americans would never get a chance to get ahead in the South, many move to this state.
What is Kansas?
400
This president was shot by a job seeker who did not get a job in his government.
Who is James A. Garfield?
400
These houses were established in poor immigrant neighborhoods to provide medical care, English classes, kindergarten, and recreational programs.
What are settlement houses?
500
Starting in 1910, most Asian immigrants to San Francisco were interned here for processing.
What is Angel Island?
500
This African American educator called on African Americans to improve their educational and vocational stations in life before fighting for civil rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
Mary Church Terrell help found this civil rights organization that exists today.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
500
This Republic president won the Election of 1896 against the Democrat and Populist backed William Jennings Bryan.
Who is William McKinley?
500
This philanthropist, using his fortunes to building schools, hospitals, and libraries, preached a Gospel of Wealth.