Chapter 18 History

This replaced the spoils system for federal jobs with job placement on the basis of competitive testing.

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Perhaps one of the greatest catalysts to reform during the Gilded Age was the assassination of

President Garfield.

Immigrants who arrived before 1890 to the United States were primarily

Protestant.

What did one journalist call "the social and intellectual center of the neighborhood" during the Gilded Age in large cities?

Saloons

What was not a cause of the changes in recreation and leisure in the Gilded Age?

Sanitation improvements

The first federal law passed to restrict immigration on the basis of race was

The Chinese Exclusion Act.

By 1900, what percentage of the residents in major cities was foreign born?

30 percent

The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry promoted the use of ________ to help farmers.

cooperatives

During the Gilded Age the real leaders of the United States could be said to be

corporations.

Unlike today, citizens during the Gilded Age expected the ___________ to have little to no effect on their daily lives.

federal government

President Cleveland's decision to support the gold standard

fractured the Democrat party into pro-gold, pro-silver wings.

Because of President Arthur's reform programs

he was not chosen by the Republicans as their candidate for a second term.

Cholera, typhoid fever, and yellow fever were often the result in urban areas of

poor sanitation

Because of the excesses of the Gilded Age, a major period of ________ occurred to _______ it.

reform, counter

Overcrowded, filthy, and poorly maintained ___________ were where the poor of the urban areas lived.

tenements

A major concern toward those labeled "new immigrants" was

that they resisted assimilation.

During the Gilded Age, temperance organizations were best associated with

the Republican party

The concept of "survival of the fittest" being applied to human society was introduced by

Herbert Spencer.

What affected African Americans' rights to vote in the South during the Gilded Age?

Jim Crow Laws removed their right to vote.

Native-born Americans who saw the influx of new immigrants to the United States with concern were called

nativists.