Chapter 4 Flashcards
Opened a Hull House in Chicago
Jane Addams
Wrote that color discrimination is barbarism
W.E.B. DuBois
Populist and Democratic Presidential nominee in 1896
William Jennings Bryan
Perhaps the best known American realist painter
Edward Hopper
Journalist who launched a crusade against lynching
Ida B. Wells
Argued that society progressed only because the fittest people survived
Herbert Spencer
Believed that wealthy Americans should use their wealth to help people help themselves
Andrew Carnegie
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Composer who was called “king of rag-time”
Scott Joplin
A republican president who opposed partonage
James A. Garfield
Nativists reacted to immigration in the late 1800s by
pressuring the government to limit or cut off immigration
Some Chinese immigrants opened their own businesses in part because
Native-born Americans kept them out of many bsinesses
In Boston, Chicago, and New York City elevated railroads and subway systems were developed to
relieve congestion on city streets
political machines provided new city dwellers necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for
votes
popular culture changed in the late 1800s because industrialization improved the standards of living for many people allowing them to do what?
spend money on entertainment
in one of the major economic debates in the late 1800s republicans in Congress blocked democratic offers to do what?
lower tariffs
Passed by Congress in response to the assassination of President Garfield the Pendleton Act did what?
Marked the beginning of a professional civil service
The People’s Party also known as _______ was formed in the 1890s to elect candidates to fight for farmers.
Populists
Beginning in the late 1800s southern states used a loophole in the wording of the Fifteenth Amendment to impose restrictions on what?
Barred African Americans from voting in elections
Set out the doctoring of “separate but equal,” establishing a legal basis for segregation that would last more than 50 years
The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
