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