Chapters 8 and 9
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8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4,
9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 New York Charity Organization Society | Tried to make charity a scientific enterprise by keeping files; also forged American ideals on immigrants. |
| Settlement Movement | Jane Addams established this movement; began in Britain because people believed just giving money to the poor would not solve the problems. |
| Social Gospel Movement | Built reform campaigns to treat the problems that led to social behaviors, instead of blaming immigrants; applied the teachings of Jesus directly to society. |
| False | T/F: The Immigration Restriction League stressed only teaching American culture and English in schools. |
| True | T/F: The "Know-Nothing Party" gained many followers due to their policy of nativism. |
| True | T/F: The only three states that were completely "dry" were Maine, Kansas, and North Dakota. |
| Booker T. Washington | Who believed that white Americans would be willing to accept hard-working African Americas as equal citizens? |
| False | True or False. The NAACP's purpose was to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain civil rights for Spanish Americans. |
| National Negro Business League | Booker T. Washington founded which organization: |
| True | True or False. Lynching was the worst kind of violence against blacks. |
| separate-but-equal | The Plessy v. Ferguson phrase is: |
| True | True or False. Whites created poll tax, and literacy tests. These acts kept African Americans from voting while not singling out the group by name, which would have been unconstitutional. |
| False | T/F: Laissez-Faire policies encouraged government involvement in business. |
| True | T/F: The Credit Mobilier scandal was linked the Union Pacific Railroad Company. |
| True | T/F: Republicans were more popular among the higher class than the Democrats. |
| False | T/F: President Hayes gained popularity because of his refusal to use the spoils system. |
| True | T/F: President Garfield, a Half-Breed Republican, was assassinated by a Stalwart Republican. |
| False | T/F: Harrison was the first democrat in office since 1856. |
| True | T/F: President Arthur urged reform of the spoils system. |
| True | T/F: Cleveland lost to Harrison in the 1888 election when the campaign focus was tariffs. |
| True | T/F: With all the suffering from the depression, the government did not help offer help to anyone. |
| False | T/F: Cleveland turned many democrats against him during his party's convention in 1896 but still ended up getting the nomination. |
| Japan and China | What were the main two countries Asians migrated from? |
| They were not trusted because of their descent. | Why were Japanese not allowed in the country? |
| San Francisco | What was the main city Chinese migrated to? |
| The Jews were killed | How did pogroms affect Jews? |
| The Mexican Revolution | Why did immigrants leave Mexico for the US? |
| Bad and for the poor, no accommodations, privacy | What was steerage on a ship? |
| False | T/F: Frederic Howe was a writer and believed that women should not be given equal rights. |
| False | T/F: People that were against women's rights thought that if women were allowed to hold public roles, then they would make society more feminine. |
| False | T/F: As technology advanced, women had to spend more time cleaning the house and cooking. |
| department stores | Growth in urban population, manufactured goods, public transportation, and electric lighting led to: |
| 30-60% less than men | Women of this time were paid ___ |
| all of the above | Which group made in the late 1800s supported women's rights? |
| trolley | The invention of the ____ led to the development of amusement parks. |
| football | It was the only major sport exclusively American origin ___. |
| dime novels | ____ were inexpensive books that anyone could be able to read. |
| local color | ______ also provided information to people about distant parts of the nation. |
| Rural; Urban | Migration among the men and women in America usually started in the ______ part of America to the _______ part. |
| Suburbs | Where did the people who could afford fares move to? |
| Skyscraper or Chicago's Home Insurance Company building | What is the name of a building that was built of Bessemer steel and first built at 10 stories high? |
| Tenements | What was another name for low cost apartment buildings? |
| Fires | Since buildings were closely packed in the city, what was a great danger to the structures? |
| Improve the police and fire system | What did urban population growth urge city officials to do? |
| literacy | The ability to read and write |
| assimilation | The process by which people of one culture become part of another culture |
| philanthropist | People who give donations to worthy causes |
| Niagara Movement | A group of African Americans that called for full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood. |
| Children needed a good education to succeed in the world | Parents fought for improved public schools because they felt that: |
| New York's Vassar College | Which of the following was the first private women's college in the United States? |
| dumb, fahreal | Bailee Ordes is |
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