Chapters 20-25 Flashcards
During the gilded age, were the democrats and republicans more different or similar?
Similar. They had few significant economic differences
What was the principal target of Thomas Nast’s cartoons?
Boss Tweeds
From the end of reconstruction to 1900 what was the position of the Supreme Court on civil rights?
They established the constitutionality of segregation
The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v ferguson upheld the segregation of what?
Railroad facilities
During reconstruction, what jobs did southern blacks typically have?
They tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers
What best describes the urban political machine of the late 19th century?
Organizations controlled by politicians who dispenses jobs and other patronage in return for political support.
What did the election of the 1870s and 1880s do?
Aroused great interest among voters
What was the 1884 election between James G Blaine and Grover Cleveland noted for?
It’s personal attacks on the two candidates
At the end of reconstruction, what did southern whites disenfranchise African Americans with?
Literacy requirements
Poll taxes
Economic intimidation
Grandfather clauses
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called what?
Jim Crow laws
What was not implemented by the radical republicans during reconstruction?
Provisions of 40 acres to each freedman
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education essentially reversed what earlier decision?
Plessy v ferguson
How did the early populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers end?
A racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the south
Who was Thomas Nast?
Political cartoonist
Who was Horace greeley?
News paper editor and presidential candidate
Who was Roscoe Conkling?
U.S. Senator and Stalwart leader
Who was William Marcy Tweed?
Corrupt Tammany Hall politician in New York City
What is not true of railroad expansion in the late 19th century?
It was financed by private corporations WITHOUT government assistance. (This is not true. Railroads used government assistance)
What is not associated with the Vanderbilt family?
Purchase of U.S. Steel
What industry did Carnegie work in?
Steel
What industry did Rockefeller work in?
Oil
What industry did Duke work in?
Tobacco
What industry did Morgan work in?
Banking
What is true of politics in the Gilded age?
Corrupt politics
Capitalist greed in industry
Extravagant mansions and lavish parties
Child labor in factories and coal mines
What was the greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post Civil War years?
Steel industry
The horizontal integration of American industry (I.e., one firm acquiring control of other firms that produce the same product) that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century was primarily a response to what?
Economic completions
The people who found daly with the “captains of industry” mostly argued what?
These men built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers
What is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT true concerning John D Rockefeller?
He loaned gold to the U.S. treasury in 1895.
Who said” the good lord gave me my money?”
John d Rockefeller
Who said “ the public be damned?”
William Vanderbilt (the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
Who said “ the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced “
Andrew Carnegie
Who said” give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?”
Emma Lazarus
Who said” show me the country in which there are no strikes and I’ll show you that country in which there is no liberty”
Samuel Gompers
The Supreme Court in the late 19th century interpreted the Constitution to favor what?
Corporations
What amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by the state?
Fourteenth amendment
What group was most affected by the new Industrial Age?
Women.
What is not true of labor in the late19th century ?
Minimum wage and maximum hour laws were widely enacted
Which of these leaders was not a leader in labor movements in the late 19th century century? Mother jones Terence Powderly Samuel Gompers John L Lewis
John L Lewis.
What was the most effective and most enduring labor union of the post civil war era?
American Federation of labor
The hay market square root represented a major set back for what labor group?
Knights of labor
What is true of the American labor movement in the late 19th century?
It was involved with several violent strikes
What is true considering the American Federation of labor?
It considered the strike its strongest weapon
What is NOT true of events that happened at Ellis Island
Last names of immigrants were frequently changed by the immigration officials
Why was there a sharp increase of immigrants from 1880-1910?
Many southern and Eastern Europeans turned to American for financial gains and political freedom
The new immigrants who came to the U.S. After 1880 were what?
Culturally different from previous immigrants
Why did natives not like the immigrants?
Practiced different religions
Had different language and cultures
We’re willing to work for lower wages
We’re not familiar with the U.S. Political system
Where did immigrants in the last quarter of the 19th century come from?
European farms and villages in east Europe and Italy
Name some famous American Architects
Thomas Jefferson
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd wright
Henry Richardson
Who wrote “the gilded age”
Mark Twain
Who wrote “Sister Carrie”
Theodore Dreiser
Who wrote “o captain my captain”
Walt Whitman
Who wrote “principles of psychology “
William James
What was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the 19th century?
Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.
What were W.E.B. DuBois’s objectives?
Total enfranchisement of all eligible black citizens
The establishment of an organization to seek the legal redress of black grievances
The establishment of black political power
Cooperation with whites
What did Booker T Washington promote?
Black self help but did not challenge segregation
What are associated with WeB Dubois ?
Niagara movement
The souls of the black folk
NAACP
Talented tenth
What was the disagreement between WEB Du Bois and Booker T Washington regarding the status of African-Americans in the early 20th century?
Whether African-Americans should first seek legal or economical equality with white Americans
The talented 10th of American blacks Shoukd lead the race to social and politically equality with whites was the view of whom?
W E B DuBois
In his 1895 Atlanta exposition speech Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to strive for success through what?
Education and economic independence
What is not associated with Booker T. Washington?
The talented 10th
What is Tamany Hall?
The corrupt government of New York
The passage of the Pendleton act was a direct result of what?
Garfield’s assassination
What caused the United States to change ticket to standard time zones
The railroads demanding a better time frame
“The growth of the large business is merely the survival of the fittest “is attributed to what idea
Social Darwinism
