Ch 7-8 Test

Question 1

Steerage

Answer 1

Bottom deck of ship where poor stayed

Question 2

Nativism

Answer 2

Favoritism toward native born Americans

Question 3

Political machines

Answer 3

Controlled activities of political party in city, gave services or bribed people in exchange for financial or political support

Question 4

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Answer 4

Civil service commission made gave gov jobs based on performance in examination

Question 5

Tuskegee institute

Answer 5

School that wanted to give blacks skills they need to be successful

Question 6

Niagara movement

Answer 6

Blacks should seek a liberal arts education so they would have more well educated people

Question 7

Jim Crow laws

Answer 7

Laws of segregation

Question 8

Poll tax

Answer 8

Have to pay to vote

Question 9

Literacy tests

Answer 9

Reading test taken in order to be able to vote

Question 10

Grandfather clause

Answer 10

If u fail literacy test or poll tax, u can still vote if u, ur father or grandfather was eligible to vote before Jan 1 1867

Question 11

Debt peonage

Answer 11

Forced labor to pay off debt

Question 12

Leisure activities

Answer 12

Whites had more money to spend because of discrimination against blacks

Question 13

Department store

Answer 13

Several departments of goods in 1 store, good quality

Question 14

Chain store

Answer 14

Stores spread out and cheap unreliable products

Question 15

Denis Kearney

Answer 15

Headed anti Chinese movement in cal

Question 16

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 16

Jap would stop sending unskilled workers to us if we stop segregating japs and Americans in school (San Fran segregation act)

Question 17

Jane Addams

Answer 17

Influential in settlement house movement, found hull house in Chicago

Question 18

Catalog stores

Answer 18

Items not in store on catalog and u order them

Question 19

Ida b Wells

Answer 19

Protests lynching

Question 20

Booker t Washington

Answer 20

Thought that racism would end if blacks get educated and provide economic value to society

Question 21

Web du bios

Answer 21

Disagree with booker t wash, found niagara movement

Question 22

Joseph pultzier

Answer 22

Bought new your world and pioneered modern day newspaper

Question 23

William Hearst

Answer 23

Pulltziers competitor, owned New York morning journal

Question 24

Old v new immigrants

Answer 24

Old- Pre 1890: mostly from northern and Western Europe

New- After 1890:most came from southern and Eastern Europe