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