Chapter 4 Study Guide

Question 1

Came to America before the Civil War (Ireland, Germany)

Answer 1

Old wave immigrants

Question 2

Came to America after the Civil War (Italy, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, China)

Answer 2

New wave immigrants

Question 3

Hostility towards immigrants - Hostility mostly from the working class

Answer 3

Nativism

Question 4

Affected immigration on the West Coast, banned further Chinese immigration, denied current Chinese in America citizenship

Answer 4

Chinese exclusion act

Question 5

Factors that caused someone to want to leave a country (famine, overpopulation, war, religious persecution)

Answer 5

Push factor

Question 6

Something that causes someone to want to come into the country (Religious freedom, Jobs)

Answer 6

Pull factor

Question 7

Multi family apartment buildings that were usually very cramped

Answer 7

Tenements

Question 8

Congestion, pollution, crime, political corruption

Answer 8

Problems created by urbanization

Question 9

 upper, middle, and working class citizens lived in separate parts of the city
Upper class lived in the heart of the city
Middle class usually move away to avoid crime
Working class usually lived in tenements 

Answer 9

Separation by class

Question 10

Informal political group designed to keep power
Immigrants voted on a party boss for jobs

Answer 10

 political machines

Question 11

The theory of evolution applied to humans.

Answer 11

Social Darwinism

Question 12

Supported philanthropy but by donating to the community

Answer 12

Andrew Carnegies the gospel of wealth speech

Question 13

Belief that the rich should donate to the poor directly by giving them money and a place to live and stuff like that

Answer 13

Philanthropy

Question 14

Provided direct help and age those who need it (Settlement house, YMCA, Salvation Army)

Answer 14

The social gospel movement

Question 15

Large house used for temporary housing and usually run by women

Answer 15

Hull house or settlement houses

Question 16

Teaching immigrants how to be more American and usually occurred in public schools

Answer 16

Americanization

Question 17

To give people who voted for you government jobs

Answer 17

Spoil system or patronage

Question 18

An example is the Pendleton civil service act

Answer 18

Civil service reform

Question 19

Meant to help regulate railroads, federal law, helped farmers in small businesses

Answer 19

Interstate commerce act

Question 20

Formed by farmers after the Civil War (Wanted Unlimited coinage of silver, federal ownership, graduated income tax)

Answer 20

Populist party or People’s party

Question 21

Adding silver to have more money in circulation to decrease deflation to help farmers
What is a big part of the 1896 election

Answer 21

Free coinage of silver

Question 22

The candidates were William Bryan and William McKinley
William Bryan was the Democratic and William McKinley was republican
William Bryan was supported by the People’s party but William McKinley won

Answer 22

The 1896 election

Question 23

Something that looks nice on the outside but it’s trashy on the inside
America looks great because of urbanization in fast growing cities
Was bad on the inside because of crime living situation is just bad distribution of wealth and workers were treated horribly and there was a lot of political corruption

Answer 23

What does the Gilded Age mean and how does it apply to this period of American history