Ch 7-8 Test Flashcards
Steerage
Bottom deck of ship where poor stayed
Nativism
Favoritism toward native born Americans
Political machines
Controlled activities of political party in city, gave services or bribed people in exchange for financial or political support
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Civil service commission made gave gov jobs based on performance in examination
Tuskegee institute
School that wanted to give blacks skills they need to be successful
Niagara movement
Blacks should seek a liberal arts education so they would have more well educated people
Jim Crow laws
Laws of segregation
Poll tax
Have to pay to vote
Literacy tests
Reading test taken in order to be able to vote
Grandfather clause
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
Debt peonage
Forced labor to pay off debt
Leisure activities
Whites had more money to spend because of discrimination against blacks
Department store
Several departments of goods in 1 store, good quality
Chain store
Stores spread out and cheap unreliable products
Denis Kearney
Headed anti Chinese movement in cal
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Jap would stop sending unskilled workers to us if we stop segregating japs and Americans in school (San Fran segregation act)
Jane Addams
Influential in settlement house movement, found hull house in Chicago
Catalog stores
Items not in store on catalog and u order them
Ida b Wells
Protests lynching
Booker t Washington
Thought that racism would end if blacks get educated and provide economic value to society
Web du bios
Disagree with booker t wash, found niagara movement
Joseph pultzier
Bought new your world and pioneered modern day newspaper
William Hearst
Pulltziers competitor, owned New York morning journal
Old v new immigrants
Old- Pre 1890: mostly from northern and Western Europe
New- After 1890:most came from southern and Eastern Europe
