Modern America Chapter 1

What Amendment sought to guarenetee that one could not be denied suffrage because of race

15th

What Amendment authorizes Congress to implement a graduated income tax

16th

What was considered the Ellis island of the west

Angel Island in San Francisco

Who claimed that the road to women's freedom lay through the workplace

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Which institution becomes a pillar of stability for immigrants as they settle into their community

Church

What was one of the main causes that the Progressive era did not champion or area that they stayed out of

Civil Rights

What created a merit system for government workers

Civil Service Act of 1883

What was the goal of Carlisle (boarding school for Indians)

Civilization

The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between what 2 groups

Colorado mine workers and Militia

After the civil war what becomes the symbol of a life of freedom on the open range

Cowboy

What 2 major scandals occurred during Grant's administration

Credit Mobiler and Whisky Ring

What system kept many sharecroppers in constant state of debt and poverty

Crop-lien system

What act divided tribal land into parcels of land for Indian families

Dawes Act of 1887

What 1884 court case agreed with lower court rulings that the 14th and 15th amendments didn't apply to Indians

Elk v Wilkins

Who was a famous socialist presidential candidate

Eugene V. Debs

Who did the Knights of Labor Include

Everybody - all inclusive

What political group sought to improve conditions through the use of cooperatives to increase pricing

Farmer's Alliance (hold grains to increase profit and get loans)

During the Pullman Strike of 1894 who was called in to suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

Federal Troops

Movement sought to attack the traditional sexual roles for women

Feminism

What is the significance of the election of 1896

First modern presidential campaign

What term describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption

Fordism

What organizatoin established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output

Grange

The Whisky Ring scandal took place during whose administration

Grant

What territories were brought under US control after the Spanish American war

Guam Philippines Puerto Rico

Name of well known black university in Washington DC

Howard University

During the 2nd industrial revolution the courts tended to favor who

Industry

What is vaudeville

Live entertainment

What does the theory of social Darwinism argue

Looks to explain why people are rich and why people are poor

Which person was a supreme court justice and a progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement

Louis Brandeis

At the end of the 19th century which act of violence was directed at mostly black men

Lynching

How did the civil war affect planter's families with about 20 slaves or more

Made them do physical labor for the first time

Which feminist was a birth control advocate

Margaret Sanger

What term is given to newspaper and magazine writers who expose the ills of industrial and urban life who help fuel progressivism

Muckrakers

To create the national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite and Glacier who did the federal government have to remove

Native Americans/Indians

Motion picture theaters with 5 cent admission

Nickelodeon

Most of the people who were known as Scalawags during Reconstruction came from where

Non slave holding white farmers from southern upcountry

What court case in 1896 ruled that separate but equal accommodations were constitutional

Plessy v Ferguson

Which terms comes into use around 1910 to describe a loosely defined political movement

Progressivism

In March of 1867 what act was adopted which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the south

Reconstruction Act

Who were considered the 3 progressive presidents

Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson

In the 1870s what did the Redeemers claim to have saved

Saved the white south from the corruption and misgovernment of northern and black officials

What is the program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices

Scientific Management

The American Federation of Labor was founded in 1886 - who were its members

Skilled Laborers

During the progressive era what did urban development highlight

Social inequality and class disparity

Where did most of the new immigrants come from

Southern and eastern Europe

The Enforcement Acts passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871 were designed to do what

Stop the KKK

What was the most ambitious but least successful goal of the Radical Republicans

Take large southern planter's land away and distribute to former slaves (land reform)

What law allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts

The Black Codes

What party wanted the federal government to stop taking money out of circulation

The Green Backs

Who was Jane Adams an advocate for

The Hull House which helped out many immigrants and the working poor in general...employment bureaus health clinics kindergartens etc.

What party evolved out of the Farmer's Alliance

The People's Party

What political platform called for the public ownership of railroads

The Populous

What was significance of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

The first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States

Who invented system for generating and distributing electricity

Thomas Edison

What tragedy brought in its wake much needed safety legislation

Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black what

US Senators

First billion-dollar enterprise corporation

US Steel (Carnegie)

Writer who's work encouraged the passage of the meat inspection act

Upton Sinclair

What is the term that refers to Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason

Waving the bloody shirt

Who was political boss who although corrupt provided important services to New Yorkers

William "Boss" Tweed

What battle marked the end of the Indian wars

Wounded Knee

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white north and south moved towards reconciliation

a tragic family quarrel among white Americans in which blacks played no significant part

The massive hunting of what animal hurt plains Indians

buffalo

In 1900 most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in what 2 industries

domestic labor and garment industry (seamstresses)

After the 1890s America is going to push for expansionism but what is main reason

economic growth ...open up other countries to export more goods

What are Bonanza farms

farms that consist of thousands of acres

During reconstruction what was the role of the church in the black community

freedom to form their own churches without white supervision

What did the term "birds of passage" refer to

immigrants who planned to return home

The new concepts of a living wage and the American standard of living allowed for criticisms of what

income disparity/inequality of wealth and power

For most former slaves what's going to embody freedom

land ownership

In the 1890s the National American Women's Suffrage Association argued that native born white women's votes would counteract whose

the ignorant foreign vote

Economic development in the American west is based on what 4 different areas/industries

tourism-mining-agriculture-lumber