50-Gilded Age
1. This term describes when a political party dominates an area
2. Name the famous political group that controlled NYC in the
3. Name the political cartoonists who exposed the corruption of
4. Which political party dominated the office of the Presidency
5. Which President was assassinated by a disgruntled office
6. Name the federal law which replaced the spoils system with a
and the other party offers little competition. Political
Machine
late 1800’s? Tweed Ring
that group to the public? Thomas Nast
between 1860 and 1908? Republicans
seeker? James Garfield
system of examinations to determine job placement?
Pendleton Act
7. Name the only President to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms in 1884 and 1892? Cleveland
Review
8. This was the first place in America for many immigrants as
9. These are the areas where many immigrants settled in major
10. Name the poorly built and over crowded apartment buildings
11. This is the idea that people should be willing to help those
12. This writer tried to raise the awareness of the public about
13. She was a social reformer who established a home to help
14. Name the author of the popular dime novel books which
they were examined and processed for entry into the US?
Ellis Island
cities, often living with others from the same culture? Ethnic
Cities
where many of the urban immigrants and poor lived?
Tenements
less fortunate than themselves? Philanthropy
the conditions of the poor? Jacob Riis
the poor and recent immigrants? Jane Addams
described successful adventures and rags to riches stories?
Horatio Alger
49-Urban Experience
1. This term refers to immigrants from Western Europe who
2. This term refers to the immigrants after 1890, who were
3. This was the first place in America for many immigrants as
4. These are the areas where many immigrants settled in major
5. This law, passed in 1882, actually forbids the future
6. Name the poorly built and over crowded apartment buildings
came to America in the period before 1890?
coming from parts of Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin
America? New Immigration
they were examined and processed for entry into the US?
Ellis Island
cities, often living with others from the same culture? Ethnic
Cities
immigration of a certain group of people? Chinese Exclusion
Act
where many of the urban immigrants and poor lived?
Tenements
7. Which American city was partially destroyed by fire in 1871?
8. This is the idea that people should be willing to help those
9. This writer tried to raise the awareness of the public about
10. Name his influential book? “How the Other Half Lives”
11. She was a social reformer who established a home to help
less fortunate than themselves? Philanthropy
the conditions of the poor? Jacob Riis
the poor and recent immigrants? Jane Addams
48-Workers Unite
1. Term that describes the factories where labor conditions
2. This main weapon of the labor movement involved workers
included long hours and sometimes dangerous conditions?
Sweat Shops
refusing to work? Strikes
3. This is the power of workers to negotiate with their
4. This is a method used by owners to keep troublesome
5. This is another owner method where they simply closed the
6. This alternative method involved owners getting a court
7. This first major labor union allowed all types of labor to join?
8. Name the place where a bomb exploded during a labor
9. Samuel Gompers would become the leader of this union which
10. This labor leader would go to prison during the Pullman Strike
11. A tragedy at this NY City factory would leave over 100
employer as a group rather than as individuals? Collective
Bargaining
workers from being employed? Blacklists
factory rather than give in to worker demands? Lockouts
order to prevent work stoppages? Injunctions
Knights of Labor
meeting killing several people in 1886? Haymarket Square
chose to allow only skilled laborers to its membership?
American Federation of Labor
of 1894 and leaves prison as a socialist reformer? Eugene V.
Debs
women dead and the public calling for labor reforms?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
45-Farmers and Populists
1. What group began to abuse the American farmer by the late
2. This is the term which refers to the general rising of prices?
3. This group began as a social group for farmers but eventually
4. The Granger Laws of the mid-west were aimed at regulating
1800’s by overcharging them for services? Railroad Abuses
Inflation
developed into a political party? Patrons of Husbandry
what group? Railroads
5. This government agency was formed after the Granger laws
were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
Interstate Commerce Act
6. This larger political group took the reforms started by
farmers and started a legitimate third party? Populism
7. Name the Platform of this reform based party that wanted
cheaper money, income taxes, 8 hour work days and
immigration laws. Secret Ballots
8. This term refers to the wishes of many people to have
cheaper money by putting silver coin into circulation as well
as gold. Free Silver Crusade
9. Name the two major candidates in the 1896 election? William
McKinley and William Jennings Bryan
10. Name the speech given by the Democratic/Populist candidate
that stated the importance of farmers to the nation. Cross
of Gold Speech