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S.S. Chapter 20
Question | Answer |
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Who became known as a robber baron for the methods he used to form Standard Oil Trust? | John D. Rockefeller |
True or False: Jim Crowe Laws were meant to enforce the segregation of black and white people in public places. | True |
Who mounted an antilynching campaign in her newspaper after three of her friends were lynched in 1892? | Ida B. Wells |
Which case did the Supreme Court rule that "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the fourteenth amendment? | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
What was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and other reformers in 1909 and played a major role in ending segregation in the 20th century? | NAACP |
What was based on Christian values and led by Protestant ministers? | social gospel movements |
Where did most Asian immigrants to the United States arrive at? | Angel Island |
What was the result of prejudice and increased opposition to immigration? | Chinese Exclusion Act |
What was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr? | Hull House |
What was the name of the illegal gang that gained control of government in New York City? | Tammany Hall |
Where was the first stop in the United States for European immigrants? | Ellis Island |
What is the name of the economic system in which the state controls the economy? | socialism |
Who helped found the American Federation of Labor and served as its president for 37 years? | Samuel Gompers |
What is the name of a union that allowed women, and eventually, African Americans to join? | Knights of Labor |
The American Railway president whom the government jailed for his role in the Pullman Strike was who? | Grover Cleveland |
What has the greatest effect on American mass culture in the late 1800s? | education |
What was the name of the two newspaper publishers that competed for readers in New York? | William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer |
What was the name of the popular form of live entertainment mixed song, dance, and comedy? | vaudeville |
Who gained control of the oil industry by putting his competitors out of business? | John D. Rockefeller |
What types of political machines demanded bribes and and used threats to affect government actions? | Tammany Hall |
Who founded Chicago's Hull House to provide services to needy people in the slums? | Jane Addams |
What was the name of the national organization of unions that used negotiations, strikes, and boycotts to achieve its goals. | American Federation of Labor |
What did Booker T. Washington find to teach African Americans trades that would help them achieve economic security? | Tuskegee Institute |
What did industrialization and urbanization in the late 1800s produce? | American mass culture |
Who learned how to make a safe, steady light bulb and invented a system to deliver electricity to buildings? | Thomas Edison |
What happened because of Thomas Edisons inventions? | gas lights were replaced with electric lights |
True or False: Overcrowdedness and unhealthyl living conditions developed because of urbanization | true |
Who was a minstrel show character that mocked African Americans? | Jim Crow |
What was a problem for workers in the late 1800s? | Unsafe working conditions |
What did Anarchist want to do? | abolish all governments |
What wast he the purpose of the Hull House? | to help unemployed people find jobs |