Gilded Age Jeopardy
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He was a corrupt political boss who
Who was William Tweed?
led Tammany Hall.
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Just about anything...
Help finding work.
What services did political
Help finding housing.
machines provide for poor
Help with the
law.
immigrant
workers?
Charity… Food, medicine, clothing,
etc.
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Thomas Nast was a Republican
political cartoonist who was
Who was Thomas Nast?
famous for exposing the
corruption of the “Tweed Ring.”
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Free Silver... He wanted the
government to print money backed,
not only by gold, but also by silver.
Name
one
position
that
William
This would cause inflation.
Jennings Bryan took in the 1896
presidential election.
Lower tariffs… High tariffs (taxes on
imports) made prices higher for
consumers (including farmers).
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Politics for 500
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No.
Their presidential candidates never won
election, and few Populists won
national office.
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Was the Populist Party successful?
Why?
Yes.
Much of their party’s platform was
adopted and implemented by the
Democrats and Republicans.
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What law gave free land to farmers
as long
The
asHomestead
they settledAct
on it for 5
years and improved it?
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The Gold Standard limited the
amount of paper money that could
be printed. That made money for
Why wasvaluable
the Gold(deflation).
Standard bad for
farmers?
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Deflation made it hard for farmers
to pay off their debts.
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The Grange created buying and
selling cooperatives in order to
exert
Howgreater
did thecontrol
National
over
Granger
prices. It
(Grangers)
did not fullyattempt
succeed
to because
raise crop
it
did
prices
not address
and cutthe
farmers’
root causes
costs?of
the problem (tariffs and
overproduction).
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The Populist Party
Farmers
What two social
groups did the
Populistsand
try to unite?
Workers
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Bryan’s policies would have hurt
workers economically.
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Why
didn’t
workers
vote
for William
Bryan
supported
“free
silver.”
That
would have
raised
workers’
food&
Jennings
Bryan
(the
Populist
prices.
Democratic?
Bryan opposed tariffs, which helped
protect workers’ jobs.
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Open Immigration allowed large
numbers of immigrants to come to
Why did the federal government
the U.S. This was good for
adopt a policy of “open
economic development because it
immigration” prior to 1921?
created a large pool of cheap,
unskilled workers.
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By setting strict limits on
immigration from southern and
How
eastern
did the
Europe,
Quotaand
Acts
allowing
(National
no
Origins
immigration
Act) affect
from Asia
immigration
or Africa,
to
the lawsthe
sharply
U.S.?reduced
immigration and effectively ended
the “second wave” of immigration.
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First
Wave
(Old Immigrants)
What
two
immigrant
groups came
during the first wave of
immigration during
Irish the 1840s &
1850s?
Germans
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Nativism = Anti-Immigrant Feelings
• The Know Nothings
• Chinese Exclusion Act
Give
two
examples
of
nativism
in
• The Gentleman’s Agreement
U.S. history.
• The Quota Acts
• The Ku Klux Klan
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Which theory of immigrant
adaptation would be exemplified
Cultural Pluralism
by the fact that a “China town”
exists in New York City?
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Gilded: Fancy on the outside, not as nice on
the inside.
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The
U.S.
good
from far awaycentury
(high
Why
islooked
the late
nineteenth
economic
growth,
millionaires,
new
(1800s)
often
referred
to as a
technology, social mobility), BUT there were
“Gilded
many problems
(politicalAge?”
corruption, poverty,
child labor, homelessness, crime,
dirty/unsanitary conditions in cities, low crop
prices, low wages, violent labor strikes, etc.)
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Push Factor: Why you leave your
original homeland.
What is the difference between a
“push” factor and a “pull factor?”
Pull Factor: Why you move to your
new country.
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What
The Immigration
law resultedand
in the
Nationality
Third Wave
Act
of Immigration?
of 1965
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To What
help the
wasurban
the main
poorpurpose
by exposing
of
problems
Jacob Riis’
of child
booklabor,
How the Other
homelessness,
Halfpoverty,
Lives? crime, etc.
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• Graduated (Progressive) Income Tax
• Gov. ownership of Railroads
• 12 Hour Day
• Initiative & Referendum
Name three parts of the Populist
• Secret Ballots
Party’s
platform
in
the
1896
• Free Silver
election.
• Limits on Immigration
• Direct Election of U.S. Senators
• Civil Service Exams
• End Corporate Subsidies
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In both cases, immigrants adopt the
culture of their new country, but with
assimilation, they completely give up
Write
Your between
their
native
culture
without
influencing
What
is the
difference
theirassimilation
new Final
culture.Challenge
and acculturation
(the melting
pot
model)?
Wager
With acculturation, the immigrants’
TIME’S
culture changes the dominant culture.
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