Ch 15/16

Question 1

Poll tax

Answer 1

many states tried to prevent black people form voting through the use of a poll tax, which required people to make a payment before voting.

Question 2

Laissez faire

Answer 2

the idea that eh government should play only a limited role in business, or take a “hands off” approach.

Question 3

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 3

this court case established the doctrine of ‘separate but equal in 1896.

Question 4

Urbanization

Answer 4

the growth of cities in the late 1800 and dearly 1900 was due largely to both immigration and urbanization.

Question 5

Grandfather clause

Answer 5

many states included grandfather clause in their laws to make sure that only black people and not white people were affected by new laws limiting people’s right to vote.

Question 6

Ghettos

Answer 6

urban neighborhoods where immigrants of the same ethnicity tended to live together.

Question 7

Vaudeville

Answer 7

This was a type of inexpensive variety show people enjoyed as entertainment

Question 8

James Garfield

Answer 8

this prescient was assassinated after fighting the spoils system when he passed over Charles Guiteau for a federal job.

Question 9

Tariff

Answer 9

a tax on imports that is used to encourage people to purchase American made products.

Question 10

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 10

Dealing with Japanese Immigrants in San Francisco

Question 11

Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas

Answer 11

Court case that overturned the Plessy decision and outlawed segregation.

Question 12

Assimilation

Answer 12

the process by which people of one culture accept the ways of another culture.

Question 13

Literacy test

Answer 13

many states tried to prevent black people from voting through the use of a literacy test, which required people to prove they could read in order to vote.

Question 14

Booker T. Washington

Answer 14

this black leader encouraged blacks to achieve equality by learning a particular trade or vocation and using those skills to demonstrate one’s usefulness and worthiness in society.

Question 15

Segregation

Answer 15

Forced separation of black people and white people.

Question 16

Tenements

Answer 16

immigrants often lived in low cost, low quality apartment building designed to cram as many people into a small area as possible.

Question 17

Scott Joplin

Answer 17

This entertainer, composer and piano player entertained people with his ragtime music.

Question 18

Temperance movement

Answer 18

the idea that alcohol consumption should be eliminated

Question 19

Social Gospel movement

Answer 19

The idea that the teaching of Jesus should be applied directly to society was called the Social Gospel movement.

Question 20

Literacy

Answer 20

the ability to read and write

Question 21

philanthropists

Answer 21

a person who gives donations to worthy causes such as the building of schools and libraries.

Question 22

Lynching

Answer 22

many black people were beaten up by angry mobs of white people who were trying to intimidate them into not asserting their lawful rights.

Question 23

Mark Twain

Answer 23

Samuel Clemens, the author of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is better known by this name

Question 24

Jim Crow laws

Answer 24

laws meant to discriminate against black people and to restrict some of their freedom.

Question 25

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 25

This black leader encouraged blacks to achieve equality by demanding social and political equality right away and by focusing on getting a liberal arts education.

Question 26

Settlement houses

Answer 26

Jane Addams is famous for starting Hull House in Chicago, Which was an example of a settlement house used for helping immigrants adjust to life in America.

Question 27

Ellis Island

Answer 27

Immigrants arriving in our country form europe often enter here.

Question 28

Nativism

Answer 28

the policy of favoring native born Americans over newly arrived immigrants.

Question 29

Yellow journalism

Answer 29

Sensational news coverage for the purpose of selling newspapers.

Question 30

Subsidy

Answer 30

Sometimes, the government makes payments to certain businesses to encourage continued development in a particular important industry, and this type of payment is called a subsidy.

Question 31

Municipal

Answer 31

political machines developed when a particular party or group headed by a ‘boss’ were able to dominate politics at the municipal level