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U.S. History II
Test 2- Things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Steerage | the most basic and cheapest accommodations on a steamship |
| Ellis Island | served as the processing center for many of the immigrants arriving on the Est Coast after 1892 |
| Angel Island | Cal. opened a barracks to accommodate the Asian immigrants |
| Nativism | is an extreme dislike for foreigners by native-orn people and a desire to limit immigration |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | the law that barred chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the chinese already in the country from becoming citizens |
| Taiping Rebellion | erupted chinese homeland and caused thousands of chinese to head for the U.S. |
| Immigration | movement of foreigners to the u.s. |
| Skyscraper | tall steel frame buildings began to appear on American skylines |
| Political machine | an informal political group designed to gain and keep power, came about party because cities had grown much faster than their governments |
| Party boss | provided neccessities for the political machines |
| Patronage | government jobs went to supporters of the winning party in an election |
| Kickback | is an official's share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding |
| Graft | fraud; getting money through dishonest or questionable means |
| Gilded Age | Novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Warner and also known as the era between 1870 to 1900. |
| Social Darwinism | Argued that society progressed and became better because only the fittest people survived |
| Stalwarts | local bosses of the Republican political machines |
| Halfbreeds | Republican reformers |
| Pendelton Act | 1883 congress passed this law and it allowed the president to decide which federal jobs would be filled according to rules laid down by a bipartisan |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | Period of violence culminated in 1866 when a bomb exploded at a labor demonstration in Haymarket Square in Chicago |
| Mckinley Tariff | Lowered federal revenue and transformed the nation’s budget surplus into a budget deficit |
| Sherman Anti-trust Act | Declared illegal any combination in the form of trust or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states. |
| Grange | the nation’s first national farm organization, the Patrons of Husbandry, better known as... |
| Farmer's Alliance | Organization that addressed problems for the farmers similar to the grange but was more effective |
| Populist | Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the people's party which is also known as.. |
| Prohibition Party | is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages |
| Greenback | paper currency that could not be exchanged for gold or silver coins |
| Goldbugs | believed the american currency should be based only on gold |
| Silverites | believed coining silver in unlimited quantities would solve the nation's economic crisis |
| Graduated income tax | taxed higher earnings more heavily |
| Sherman Silver Act | authorized the U.S. Treasury to purchase 4.5 milion ounces of silver per month |
| Gold Standard Act | U.S. officially adopted a gold-based currency |
| Jim Crow Laws | Statutes enforcing segregation |
| Pool tax | Required that all citizens registering to vote pay a sum of $2, which was beyond the means of most poor African Americans |
| Grandfather clause | Allowed any man to vote if he had an ancestor on the voting rolls in 1867 |
| Lynchings | executions without proper court proceedings, carried out by mobs each year |
| Segregation | i. Separation of the races, was different because laws enforced and perpetuated the discrimination |
| Plessy v Furguson | Supreme court upheld the law and expressed a new legal doctrine endorsing “separate but equal facilities for A.A.’s |
| Wabash v Illinois | ruled that the stateof Illinois could not restrict the rates that the Wabash Railroad charged for traffic between states because only federal government could regulate interstate commerce |
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