Chapter 4

Question 1

Opened a Hull House in Chicago

Answer 1

Jane Addams

Question 2

Wrote that color discrimination is barbarism

Answer 2

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 3

Populist and Democratic Presidential nominee in 1896

Answer 3

William Jennings Bryan

Question 4

Perhaps the best known American realist painter

Answer 4

Edward Hopper

Question 5

Journalist who launched a crusade against lynching

Answer 5

Ida B. Wells

Question 6

Argued that society progressed only because the fittest people survived

Answer 6

Herbert Spencer

Question 7

Believed that wealthy Americans should use their wealth to help people help themselves

Answer 7

Andrew Carnegie

Question 8

Founder of the Tuskegee Institute

Answer 8

Booker T. Washington

Question 9

Composer who was called “king of rag-time”

Answer 9

Scott Joplin

Question 10

A republican president who opposed partonage

Answer 10

James A. Garfield

Question 11

Nativists reacted to immigration in the late 1800s by

Answer 11

pressuring the government to limit or cut off immigration

Question 12

Some Chinese immigrants opened their own businesses in part because

Answer 12

Native-born Americans kept them out of many bsinesses

Question 13

In Boston, Chicago, and New York City elevated railroads and subway systems were developed to

Answer 13

relieve congestion on city streets

Question 14

political machines provided new city dwellers necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for

Answer 14

votes

Question 15

popular culture changed in the late 1800s because industrialization improved the standards of living for many people allowing them to do what?

Answer 15

spend money on entertainment

Question 16

in one of the major economic debates in the late 1800s republicans in Congress blocked democratic offers to do what?

Answer 16

lower tariffs

Question 17

Passed by Congress in response to the assassination of President Garfield the Pendleton Act did what?

Answer 17

Marked the beginning of a professional civil service

Question 18

The People’s Party also known as _______ was formed in the 1890s to elect candidates to fight for farmers.

Answer 18

Populists

Question 19

Beginning in the late 1800s southern states used a loophole in the wording of the Fifteenth Amendment to impose restrictions on what?

Answer 19

Barred African Americans from voting in elections

Question 20

Set out the doctoring of “separate but equal,” establishing a legal basis for segregation that would last more than 50 years

Answer 20

The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson