Ch. 4 Vocabulary

Question 1

Immigrant

Answer 1

One who enters and is established in another country other than his original nationality

Question 2

Ethnics

Answer 2

Related to large groups of people related to racial or national background

Question 3

Nativism

Answer 3

Hostility towards immigrants by native born people

Question 4

Incentive

Answer 4

Something that motivates someone into action

Question 5

Skyscraper

Answer 5

A very tall building

Question 6

Tenement

Answer 6

Multi family apartments that meet limited living standards

Question 7

Trigger

Answer 7

To cause an action that causes a greater reaction

Question 8

Political Machine

Answer 8

An organization limited to a political party that often controlled local government

Question 9

Party Boss

Answer 9

The person in control of a political machine

Question 10

Graft

Answer 10

The acquisition of money in dishonest ways, such as bribing politicians

Question 11

Individualism

Answer 11

Belief that despite a persons background, they can still be successful

Question 12

Social Darwinism

Answer 12

Philosophy based on Darwins theories of evolution and natural selection, asserting humans have developed through completion and only the fittest surviving

Question 13

Evolution

Answer 13

Scientific theory that humans and other life forms have developed over time

Question 14

Philanthropy

Answer 14

Providing money to help humanitarian or social goals

Question 15

Settlement House

Answer 15

Institution in poor neighborhoods that provided medical attention and other community services

Question 16

Americanization

Answer 16

Causing of person or individual to acquire American traits and characteristics

Question 17

Publish

Answer 17

To make a document available to the general public

Question 18

Populism

Answer 18

Political movement in 1890’s farmers in favor of free coinage of silver and political control on railroads

Question 19

Greenback

Answer 19

A unit of paper currency issued by government in first civil war

Question 20

Currency

Answer 20

Paper money used as a medium of exchange

Question 21

Inflation

Answer 21

Ongoing increase in prices and decrease in the value of money

Question 22

Bond

Answer 22

Note issued by government that promises to pay off a loan with interest

Question 23

Deflation

Answer 23

Ongoing decrease in value and increase in value of money

Question 24

Cooperative

Answer 24

Store where farmers buy goods from each other

Question 25

Strategy

Answer 25

Plan or method for achieving a goal

Question 26

Graduated income tax

Answer 26

Tax based on net income of an individual or business and which taxes different incomes

Question 27

Poll tax

Answer 27

A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote

Question 28

Segregation

Answer 28

Separation of race, class, or houses

Question 29

Discrimination

Answer 29

Different treatment of others based on bias

Question 30

Jim Crowe Laws

Answer 30

Enforce segregation

Question 31

Lynch

Answer 31

To execute by hanging without lawful approval