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History 15 & 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A mass movement from the rural South to Kansas in 1879 | exodusters |
| named after a former white/black face performer, but are laws that overturned the civil rights act of 1875 | Jim Crow Laws |
| signed into law by Grover Cleveland in 1887, it is a federal law that regulates interstate commerce | interstate commerce commision |
| became angry with President Garfield and shot him to death | Charles Guiteau |
| an increase in the value of money and a fall in the general prices of goods and services | deflation |
| is the inhumane process of hanging an African American in the South for a "hate crime" | lynching |
| started by MS. and a $2 charge to vote along with a literacy test | poll tax |
| leader of a gang who robbed banks across the Midwest and became romanticized by many in newspapers during the 1880's | Jesse James |
| act that allowed the president to name people for federal jobs from a list of candidates and they could not be removed for political reasons | Pendelton Act |
| separation of the races | segregation |
| elected president in 1880, but assassinated by Charles Guiteau | President Garfield |
| journalist and former slave who was removed from a train in 1884 | Ida B. Wells |
| a movement to increase farmer's interests and political power | populism |
| paper currency that is not exchanged for gold or silver coins | greenbacks |
| lowered federal revenue and transformed the nation's budget surplus into a budget deficit | Mckinley tarriff |
| a speaker on the barbaric nature of segregation and plight of African Americans as they struggle for equality | W.E.B. DuBois |
| a Louisiana Law that stated men who were eligible to vote prior to 1867 could vote. This kept African Americans ineligible to vote | Grandfather Clause |
| congressman from Nebraska who was nominated for president by populists party because he supported "silver" | William Jennings Bryan |
| argued that the 14th & 15th amendment applied to women | Susan B. Anthony |
| a federal tax that taxes higher earnings heavily | Graduated Income Tax |
| authorizes the government to purchase over 4.5 million of silver each month in order to reduce deflation | Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
| introduced by congress in 1890, that made it illegal to conspire to hinder commerce among the states by forming multiple businesses together | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| a political organization run by Irish Immigrant George Plunkitt | Tammany Hall |
| "survival of the fittest" was the catchphrase of this organization | Social Darwinism |
| Irish immigrant who organized one of New York's largest political organizations and influenced elections | George Plunkett |
| an attempt to portray people realistically rather than idolizing them as the romantics had done | realism |
| steel frame buildings in big cities-first was built in 1885 | skyscraper |
| a tiny island in NY Harbor that processed immigrants after 1892 | Ellis Island |
| between 1870-1900 the time period that represent something nice on the outside, but made with cheap materials on the inside | Gilded Age |
| is when a person uses their great wealth to help society | philanthropy |
| forms of entertainment during the Gilded Age: stage and music | vaudeville/ragtime |
| African American who founded the Tuskegee Institute and became a spokesperson for the African American community | Booker T. Washington |
| located in California and housed Asian immigrants as they waited on their paperwork to be approved for relocation to the U.S. | Angel Island |
| the belief that an individual could rise as high in society as their work ethic or belief could take them | individualism |
| Philosopher who applied Charles Darwin's beliefs to human society | Herbert Spencer |
| author whose works include Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and whose opinion was considered important by society during the Gilded Age | Mark Twain |
| a dislike of immigrants by native people who seek to limit immigration | Nativism |
| the most basic and cheapest accommodations of a steamship | steerage |
| dark and over-crowded apartments in big cities | tenement |
| architect of skyscrapers who taught Frank Lloyd Wright | Louis Sullivan |
| passed by congress in 1882, this barred any more immigrants from China and also barred the existing Asian immigrants from becoming citizens for 10 years | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| single handedly created the 2nd largest crop in the South influenced the country to adopt the peanut: oil, flour, inks, dyes, soaps, etc | George Washington Carver |
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