| A | B |
|---|
| Gilded Age | period of corruption during the Industrial Age |
| tenements | buildings constructed to house immigrants cheaply |
| What had the greatest effect in Americanizing immigrants? | schools |
| Why didn't immigrants settle in the Southeast? | no key immigration stations there |
| Give two reasons why immigrants settled in ethnic neighborhoods | to retain their own culture, they provided help to new immigrants |
| Where was Catholic power the greatest? | Northern cities like Boston and New York |
| What group of immigrants did the Exclusion Act affect? | Chinese |
| What did the Chinese Exclusion Act state? | no Chinese laborers could enter US for 10 years |
| Social Gospel Movement | preached salvation through helping the poor |
| Most famous person associated with settlement houses | Jane Addams |
| Who was President during the Whiskey Age scandal? | Grant |
| What was the main purpose of political machines/ | to trade votes for favors (graft/bribes) |
| Head of the political machine in NYC | "Boss" Tweed |
| Reform Presidents | Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland |
| President when Pendleton Act was passed: | Chester A. Arthur |
| What law is an example of politcal reform in late 1800? | Pendleton Act |
| What was the point of the Pendleton Act? | Merit system to be used for civil service jobs |
| mugwump | politician who wouldn't make up mind or refused to take a stand on important issues |
| mainly high | Tariffs during the Gilded Age were: |
| compete economically | Bokker T. believed that blacks should ___________ to achieve power. |
| vocational; trades and farming | Booker T. stressed this type of education |
| What did Booker T. urge all blacks to do? | Use economic importance to end racism |
| How did DuBois believe blacks should get their rights? | peaceful activism |
| The Talented Tenth | Small elite group of blacks who would lead the black community to end racism |
| Ida B. Wells pushed for: | anti-lynching legislation |
| De facto segregation | segregation by custom; not by law |
| De jure segregation | segregation imposed by law |
| Where were most Jim Crow laws? | the South |
| What was the point of Jim Crow Laws? | segregation |
| Who inspired the idea of "form follows function"? | Louis Sullivan |
| Why did Ford pay his workers well? | because workers become consumers |
| What city and types of business did the refrigerated railroad car help most? | Chicago; meat-packing |
| What invention helped "yellow journalism?" | Kodak camera |
| Why did DuBois publish The Crisis? | to push for civil rights |
| How did Booker T. and DuBois differ? | Booker T. was willing to wait for change; DuBois wasn't |
| Why was Booker T. called an accommodationist? | His Atlanta Compromise speech was seen to accommodate whites |
| What was the main idea of the Niagara Movement? | Renounced Booker T. Washington's accommodation policies |
| What is "yellow journalism?" | sensationalism of an event; exaggeration |
| What was the main idea of the movie "Birth of a Nation?" | slaves and abolitionists shown as destructive forces |
| First mass produced and marketed soft drink: | Coca-Cola |
| Stalwarts | group of Republicans who didn't favor reforms or merit system |
