Attempt #1

Political Bosses

..., Politicians who provided some aid to the citizens of their districts - helped the poor to find homes and jobs, apply for citizenship and voting rights, built parks, funded police and fire departments, and constructed roads and sewage lines; in exchange, expected the citizens of their respective areas to reelect them; often used corrupt means to accomplish goals

Groover Cleveland

Democrat nominee of president 1884, won the election, first president to serve two non consecutive presidency.

Basketball History

Dr. James A. Naismith introduced basketball to a class at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts on January 20, 1892 The first game was played with a peach basket and the bladder of a soccer ball By 1905 the game was firmly entrenched in the athletic programs of colleges Basketball became an Olympic sport in 1936

James Weaver

He was the Populist candidate for president in the election of 1892; received only 8.2% of the vote. He was from the West.

Mark Twain

The writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910); used "realistic fiction".

Tammany Hall

a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

History of Football

first became popular in the US around 1820; in 1880, Walter Camp made changes to the game

Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

forced the government to purchase a 4.5 of silver every month

James Blaine

Republican nominee for president in 1884, previously a Secretary of State

William McKinley

Republican president, 1897-1901, who represented the conservative Eastern establishment; he stood for expansion, high tariffs, and the gold standard. He led the nation during the Spanish-American War (1898) and was assassinated in 1901 by a radical political anarchist.

Spoils System

the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power

Gold Bugs

referred to those who favored basing the US monetary system on gold to the exclusion of silver

boodle

informal terms for money

Greenbacks

paper money, convertible for gold

Urbanites

people who live in cities

Coney Island

Created as a way for working-class people to temporarily escape the hardships of the working, Coney Island became an amusement park with rides and attractions that contrasted the grim realities many were living.

Chester A. Arthur

Garfield won but was shot, so Arthur became the 21st president.

Hull House

settlement house founded by Progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889 ( social worker)

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years

Brooklyn Bridge

1883 Designed by John Roebling. Combines two structural systems, steal cables(tension) and the arches themselves (comprassion). established the structural basis for all modern suspension bridges; it also employed the first steel used in an American structure.

B. Harrison

1889-1893 Republican won against Cleveland for reelection

Boss Tweed

A political boss who carried corruption to new extremes, and cheated the city out of more than $100 million

Victorian Period

An English movement starting in 1837, when Queen Victoria was crowned, and ending in 1901, when she died. This period was marked by prose fiction and non-fiction, with common themes of loss and wistfulness. Realism and its forms were part of this era.

Com stock law

Ban mailing of material "designs to lust"

Central Park

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1858, New York's Central Park was the first example of a movement to create urban parks.

William Le Baron Jenney

Designed the first skyscraper with a steel frame, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago

Sears Robuck & co

Mail order catalogs, could by anything

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Passed in 1883, an Act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.

Victoria Woodhull

Shook the pillars of conventional morality when she publicly proclaimed her belief in free love in 1871. She was a divorcee, sometime stockbroker, and a tireless feminist propagandist.

Ringling Brothers

This circus will end its tradition of using live performances of elephants in its shows after about 200 years

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show

United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)

Silverites

believed that unlimited amounts of silver coins would solve the economic crisis