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| What led to government regulation of businesses during the Gilded Age? | The regulation of businesses during the guided age was led by the limited role that government played in business, laissez faire. |
| What caused the rapid expansion of urban areas in the late 1800s? | The expansion of urban areas in the 1800s was caused by the jobs that were available and the wages immigrant and other minorities could work for. |
| Explain the platforms of the Democrats/Republicans during the Gilded Age? | During the Guilded Age the Republicans built their platforms around industrialists, bankers, and eastern farmers. They favored a tight money supply backed up by gold high tariffs to protect American businesses generous pensions for union soldiers, government aids to the railroads, strict limits on immigrants, and enforcements of blue laws. Democrats attracted those who felt less privileged, northern urban immigrants, laborers, southern planters, and western farmers. |
| Explain the significance of immigration. | Immigrants came to America to escape religious persecution, fleeing crop failures, shortage of jobs and rising taxes. But when they were treated terribly, they had to cross the ocean into America in night tight compact areas and if they had any diseases they were immediately shipped back home. They worked for next to nothing. |
| How did immigrants support city political machines? | Immigrants supported political machines because they would help poor people at a time when neither government nor private industry would. |
| Explain the significance of the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907. | The gentleman's agreement of 1907 was not an official government document but compromise that the Japanese and Theodore Roosevelt agreed to. It stated that California would not make Chinese, Japanese, and Korean children to attend separate schools. In return, the Japanese wouldn't issue passports to laborers. |
| Why did parents pressure local governments to reform public schools? | It was a necessary first step toward economic and social success. |
| Why did many immigrants consider education important? | It was a way for their children to become successful Americans, to qualify for citizenship. |
| Explain the Niagra Movement and its goals. | The Niagra Movement was a group of African Americans that called for the full civil liberties and end to racial discrimination and recognization of human brotherhood. |
| Explain the beliefs of W.E.B Dubois on education and integration. | He argued that the brightest African Americans had to step forward to lead their people in the quest for political and social equality and civil rights. They then would be equipped to lead the Negro race. |
| Explain the Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court decision. | Establishment of the separate but equal doctrine |
