Age Of Reform Flashcards
The Great __________ Fire supposedly started when Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern.
Chicago
___________ Jews are associated with Germany.
Ashkenazic
Who organized the Knights of Labour?
Uriah Stephens
Who was assassinated by Charles Guiteau?
James A. Garfield
Who constructed a model company town?
George Pullman
President _____________ was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz.
William McKinley
The ____________ has been called the “melting point of nations.”
United States
The English religion background has influenced America’s culture, law, and _________.
Religion
The King James Version of the Bible is an ________ literary masterpiece.
English
During the __________, Europeans came to America to work in factories but dreamed of land on which to farm.
Old Immigration
The __________ occurred from the 1880s to World War 1.
New Immigration
The only never freely chose to come to America were _________ immigrants.
Black
Cuban immigrants came to the United States in the 1960s to escape __________ dictatorship.
Fidel Castro’s
American _________ likely migrated to United States across the Bering Strait.
Indians
____________ came to America searching for the Messiah.
Rabbi Leopold Cohn
Most Americans lived in ______ areas before the War Between the States.
Rural
Three constant dangers to city dwellers were ______, diseases, and crime.
Fires
Factories with terrible working conditions were called “_________.”
Sweatshops
Factory workers were often _________ and children.
Women
The Knights of Labor supported an eight-hour workday and abolishment of __________, but they opposed strikes.
Child labor
After the War Between the States, the was a shift from self-sufficient farming to _____________ farming.
Commercial
___________ regulated the rates and practices of grain elevator and railroads within a state.
Granger Laws
__________ were paper money without specie backing that were printed on green paper and circulated during the War Between the States.
Greenbacks
One way to keep money stable is to base it on a ________ standard.
Gold
The _________ Act demonetized silver.
Coinage
The Populist Party was in favor of free and unlimited coinage of __________ at a ratio of 16 to 1.
Silver
List the party affliction of each Presidential candidate I in the election of 1892.
- Democratic \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ - Populist \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ - Republican \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Grover Cleveland; James B. Weaver; Benjamin Harrison
In 1896 __________ was the Presidential nominee of both the Democratic and Populist political parties.
William Jennings Bryan
Who was a leader of the American Railway Union?
John Newton
Who wrote “Amazing Grace?”
Emma Lazarus
Who wrote “It Is Well With My Soul?”
H. G. Spafford
Who established the American Federation of Labor?
Samuel Gompers
