Chapter 11

Question 1

laws requiring children to attend school

Answer 1

needed an educated workforce

Question 2

Society of American Indians cons

Answer 2

encouraged American Indians to adopt white American culture

Question 3

Pres. Roosevelt & the Japanese

Answer 3

Roosevelt condemned discrimination b/c he was concerned about Japan’s growing naval power

Question 4

Florence Kelley strategy

Answer 4

organized a boycott of goods produced using child labor

Question 5

reason for skyscrapers

Answer 5

increased immigration/migration to cities–needed more housing and space for businesses

Question 6

Northern Securities Company lawsuit

Answer 6

first time the Sherman Antitrust Act was used to break up a trust

Question 7

muckrakers

Answer 7

write about (expose) the corruption in business & problems in society

Question 8

Civil Service Commission purpose

Answer 8

fill federal jobs based on skills–not “who you know”

Question 9

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 9

co-founded NAACP; wanted to actively fight discrimination

Question 10

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 10

worked toward the prohibition of alcohol

Question 11

Boss William Tweed

Answer 11

corrupt city boss who cheated NYC out of lots of money

Question 12

“Gilded Age” meaning

Answer 12

thin layer of pretty (wealth) covering the ugly (corruption)

Question 13

tenement problems

Answer 13

overcrowded; disease spread rapidly; dangerous in fires

Question 14

Pres. Taft & safety reform

Answer 14

supported safety rules for mines

Question 15

Eighteenth Amendment topic

Answer 15

manufacture, sale, & transportation of alcohol

Question 16

nativists & Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 16

nativists thought Chinese wouldn’t fit into American culture so got a law passed preventing immigration

Question 17

reasons for urbanization

Answer 17

large numbers of immigrants & migrants moving to cities for industrial jobs (East and Midwest)

Question 18

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 18

worked for women’s suffrage (right to vote)

Question 19

pull factor examples

Answer 19

inexpensive land; industrial jobs; freedom

Question 20

Short Answer #1
What are some factors that pushed European immigrants to leave their home countries and move to the United States?

Answer 20

-land scarce in Europe
-farmers had trouble growing enough to support their families
-machinery replaced workers so people lost jobs
-religious & political persecution in Europe

Question 21

Short Answer #2
What relationship existed between the crowded conditions immigrants found on ships traveling to the United States and medical inspections on Ellis Island?

Answer 21

-many immigrants crossed the Atlantic on crowded ships where disease spread rapidly
-medical inspections on Ellis Island to make sure immigrants were healthy
-some immigrants denied entry until they recovered
-some even sent back to Europe

Question 22

Short Answer #3
Contrast (show differences) the homes of people living in poor, urban neighborhoods with the homes of the urban middle class.

Answer 22

*Poor
-lived in small, crowded apartment buildings called tenements
-tenements in city center; slums
-whole families lived in a single room
-no heat, windows, or indoor bathrooms
-disease spread rapidly

*Middle Class
-lived in neighborhoods outside the city center
-large homes on tree-lined streets
-fewer problems with disease
-more comfortable homes

Question 23

Short Answer #4
In what way did President Roosevelt’s approach to public lands balance the needs of American businesses with the public’s right to enjoy open land?

Answer 23

-businesses needed natural resources like lumber BUT
-Roosevelt wanted to protect/conserve natural resources for the public to enjoy
-some lands set aside for regulated mining & forestry
-other land set aside for national parks & wilderness areas