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20th Century
Life at the turn of the 20th Century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A tax a person is required to pay before he or she is allowed to vote. Poll taxes were used in many southern states after the Reconstruction period to restrict African-American citizens' right to vote. | Poll Tax |
| Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East Coast | Ellis Island |
| 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for ten years. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| In 1907 Theodore Roosevelt arranged with Japan that Japan would voluntarily restrict the immigration of its nationals to the U.S. | Gentlemen's Agreement |
| A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote. | Literacy Test |
| United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903). | Frederick Olmsted |
| Community center providing help to immigrants and the poor. | Settlement House |
| The founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes. | Jane Addams |
| N.Y. political boss (did not hold a political office) controlled the Democratic political machine known as Tammany Hall; Stole $200 million form New York City. | William Tweed |
| Famous cartoonist in the 1860s-70s. He portrayed Tweed and his people as vultures picking at the city's bones. | Thomas Nast |
| 20th president, Republican, assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau after a few months in office due to lack of patronage | James Garfield |
| 21st president, Republican, taking office after assassination of Garfield, revitalized the US Navy and ironically lead the charge of civil service reform. | Chester Arthur |
| Social and educational organization for farmers. | National Grange |
| Founded 1891 - called for free coinage of silver and paper money, national income tax, direct election of senators, regulation of railroads, and other government reforms to help farmers. | Populist Party |
| 25th President; 1897-1901, Republican, supported gold standard, protective tariff, and Hawaiian Islands, against William Bryan (The Great Commoner), assassinated. | William McKinley |
| A citizen could vote only if his grandfather had been able to vote. At the time, the grandfathers of black men in the South had been slaves with no right to vote. Another method for disenfranchising blacks. | Grandfather Clause |
| Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites. | Jim Crow Laws |
| Supreme Court case which stipulated that seperate but equal facilities were constitutional. | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law. | Lynching |
| Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. | Booker Washington |
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