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Section 1: Politics in the Gilded Age
Terms & People
Gilded Age:
Laissez-Faire
Subsidy:
Blue Law:
Civil Service:
Pendleton Civil Service Act:
Munn v. Illinois:
Main Ideas
1) How did business influence politics during the Gilded Age?
2) In what ways did government reform the spoils system and regulate railroads?
3) How did the Interstate Commerce Act affect railroads?
Section 2: People on the Move
Terms and People
Pogrom:
Steerage:
Quarantine:
Ghetto:
Restrictive covenant:
Chinese Exclusion Act:
Main Ideas
1)
What were the experiences of immigrants in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?
2) What different challenges did immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Mexico face?
3) Why did immigrants leave Mexico for the United States between 1910 and 1920?
Section 3: The Challenges of the Cities (534-539)
Terms & People
Suburb:
Tenement:
Dumbbell Tenement:
Political Machine:
Graft:
Elisha Graves Otis:
Jacob Riis:
William Marcy Tweed:
Main Ideas
1)
Why did cities expand in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?
2) What new developments helped cities grow?
3) How did living conditions in cities change?
4) What were the results of city growth?
5) What contributed to the rise of political machines?
Section 4: Ideas of Reform (541-545)
Terms & People
COS:
Social Gospel Movement:
Settlement House:
Sociology:
Nativism:
Temperance Movement:
Prohibition:
Main Ideas
1) What were the different movements to help the needy and how did they do so?
2) How and where did sociology develop?
3)
What efforts were made to control immigration and personal behavior in the late 1800’s
Section 1: The Expansion of Education (552-557)
Terms & People
Assimilation:
Niagara Movement:
Laura Ingalls Wilder:
Main Ideas
1) How and why did public schools expand during the late 1800’s
2) How did public schools help with the assimilation of new immigrants?
3) How did opportunities for higher education increase after the Civil War?
4) Describe how one philanthropist contributed to higher education.
5) What were the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois regarding African American
Eduation?
Section 2: New Forms of Entertainment (559-563)
Terms and People
Vaudeville:
Yellow Journalism:
Ragtime:
The Great Train Robbery:
Main Ideas
1) What new kinds of performances and recreation did Americans enjoy at the turn of the century?
2) What was the most popular spectator sport at this time?
3) What were people reading for information and entertainment?
Section 3: The World of Jim Crow (564-568)
Terms & People
Poll Tax:
Grandfather Clause:
Segregation:
Jim Crow:
Plessy v Ferguson:
Lynching:
NAACP:
Main Ideas
1) How were African Americans discriminated against after Reconstruction?
2) How did African Americans resist this discrimination?
Section 4: The Changing Roles of Women (569-573)
Terms & People
Department Stores:
Rural Free Delivery:
Mail-Order Catalog
Main Ideas
1)
What were the issues in the debate over women’s equality?
2)
How did women’s work in the home change at the turn of the century?
3)
How did stores and catalogs serve women’s new role as consumers?
4) What kind of work did women do outside the home?