Gilded Age
It meant "hands off" and that govt would stay out of businesses. So child labor and immigratns were at an all time high.
What was laissez-faire and how was it used?
a set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
belief that native born people should be treated better than immigrants.
The term nativism is?
These types of stores became popular in the mid-1880s, as they provided a wide variety of products sold under one roof.
What are department stores?
He wrote The Jungle...wanted to expose light on poor working conditions and instead shined light on unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry (food industry as a whole)
Who is Upton Sinclair?
What is Vaudeville?
All immigrants coming from Europe and Countries to the East had to go through this island before entering the United States.
Immigrants must prove they had at least $25, were healthy and could work, and had no felonies. Almost all were accepted
What was Ellis Island?
He critiqued Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" in his book, "The Souls of Black Folk", in which he felt it necessary to voice concern of unjust treatment of African Americans. He also founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
corrupt powerful group that supported a corrupt local political party, usually the same corrupt political party that is allowing them to be powerful.
What is a Political Machine?
a person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics:The original muckrakers were the journalists who exposed child labor, sweatshops, poor living and working conditions, and government inefficiency in the early 20th century.
What is a muckraker?
This vibrant city was considered the "Cigar Capital of the World". Although today it is considered a neighborhood in Tampa, it still holds its original name
What is Ybor City?
all immigrants coming from Asian nations had to stop at this island off the coast of San Francisco before coming in.
It was horrible in contrast compared to Ellis island because the Asian immigrants, especially the Chinese, were treated horribly and sometime imprisoned for weeks before even seeing anyone.
What was Angel island?
He was a cartoonist who worked to expose the political corruption, especially when it came to Boss Tweed
Had many “grafts” or illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
Had the New York County Courthouse built for $13 million, but it really only cost 3 million.
Once it became clear that he had stolen from the federal government, the federal government had to start cracking down on these political machines.
Who is Boss Tweed
A series of laws that enforced racial segregation. It was named after a minstrel character from the 1820's.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
public votes dealing with political issues and whether or not to remove political officials from office
What is a referendum?
was a place that immigrants new to a city could go and learn basic things about America and specific things they needed to know about the city they had just arrived in.
Here, an a immigrant could learn English, get help finding a place to live, understand the American culture, and other basic things that a new immigrant would need.
What was a Settlement houses?
negative term given to the leaders of industry like Carnegie or Rockefeller who were considered by the poor working population to be greedy, manipulative, and were keeping other people from achieving the same level of success.
What is a Robber baron?
was where a person who just won an election will appoint their supporters to high position of power, regardless of effectiveness.
Patronage(Spoils System)
Corrupt way of doing things
What is a Graft?
This was brought on, especially in Asian communities in which Chinese or Japanese communities banded tightly together due to fear of racial discrimination and violence.
What is self-imposed segregation?
A Supreme Court case which went against the New York Bakeshop Act. The case based the verdict on the 14th Amendment's principle that having limits to working time limited employees' freedom to sell their labor to employers.
What was Lochner v New York?
article that Carnegie wrote saying the wealthy should use their money for good. Carnegie said that money should not be used to encourage slothful or drunken ways, but to benefit society (this was his rationalization for why he shouldn’t pay his workers more, but should still “give back” much of his money by donating to needs within society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
"Separate but Equal" is referring to what case
What is Plessy V Ferguson?
He purchased 4 million acres of land stretching from Orlando to Lake Okeechobee for 25 cents an acre.
Who was Hamilton Disston?