American History Chapter 17-18
One of the biggest political issues of the late 19th century was
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By 1900, what percentage of the residents in major cities was foreign born?
30 percent
Turner's "frontier thesis" argued that
America's frontier had made it more democratic
In the second half the 19th century all of the following were found in the New West except
Bronze
In 1882, Congress banned further immigration to the United States from what country?
China
Miners were drawn to Nevada's Comstock Lode by the discovery of _____________ there in the 1850s.
Gold
The section of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was concerned with the excesses of the time were known as the
Half-Breeds
The concept of "survival of the fittest" being applied to human society was introduced by
Herbert Spencer
The ______________________ was a series of state constitutional amendments designed to restrict black voting rights in the 1890s.
Mississippi Plan
_____________________ was the name given to the violent racism against successful blacks that appeared in late 19th century.
Negrophobia
The __________________ was a new political party made up largely of farmers from the South and West who wanted to gain political influence in the East.
People's party
Which political party during the Gilded Age promoted the plight of miners and farmers?
Populists
The post-Civil War South industrialized in all of the following areas except
The weapons industry
Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis ignored all of the following groups except
White men
In cities during the Gilded Age, the political process was usually controlled by ________, and their organizations were known as _________.
bosses, machines
In 1885, the United States government stopped
companies from paying to import workers from outside the nation
According to your textbook, the post-Civil War West symbolized
economic opportunity and personal freedom
Cholera, typhoid fever, and yellow fever were often the result in urban areas of
poor sanitation
A major concern toward those labeled "new immigrants" was
that they resisted assimilation
The Panic of 1893 started when
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad declared bankruptcy.