gilded age

Question 1

spoils system

Answer 1

when you win a government job, you give government titles to family members or people who voted for you

Question 2

Pendleton civil service act

Answer 2

to get a civil service job you have to take a civil service test. did this to prevent political corruption

Question 3

separate but equal clause

Answer 3

facilities even with segregation have to have the same quality and services

Question 4

Dejure segregation

Answer 4

legal segregation

Question 5

defacto segregation

Answer 5

“fact, not law” non legal segregation

Question 6

urbanization

Answer 6

gaining of population of the city

Question 7

assimilation

Answer 7

trying to fit into the country you immigrated to (learning customs, slang, tradition)

Question 8

jim crow laws

Answer 8

nickname for segregation laws

Question 9

NAACP

Answer 9

National Association for the advancement of colored people

Question 10

why were unions created?

Answer 10

to demand change in working conditions

Question 11

closed shop

Answer 11

union workers only

Question 12

who created the NAACP

Answer 12

Dubois, Mary White Ovington and others

Question 13

gilded age

Answer 13

years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century.

Question 14

Major problems of urbanization

Answer 14

• unsanitary living conditions
• overcrowding neighborhoods
• easily spread fires
• crime
• high amount or poverty

Question 15

what is social darwinism

Answer 15

rationalizing the treatment of poor people/immigrants in a society, natural selection and “survival of the fittest”, upper class used it to justify their riches

Question 16

Ellis Island

Answer 16

leading processing center

Question 17

1st Wave of immigrants

Answer 17

pre 1890; most people looked like average white people

Question 18

2nd wave of immigrants

Answer 18

post 1890; people with different skin tones, ethnic backgrounds, religion, etc than the 1st wave were coming in and were prejudiced against

Question 19

nativism

Answer 19

key movement to restrict immigrants. put in place laws for quotas of Europeans and bans for others (ex Chinese exclusion act)

Question 20

graft

Answer 20

abusing political power for ones personal gain

Question 21

what caused political corruption

Answer 21

spoils system and grafts. resulted in political reform by the gov

Question 22

Home rule

Answer 22

North passed power to the South. The South couldn’t get rid of the Amendments but they put restrictions on black people with creative wording

Question 23

voting restrictions

Answer 23

were placed on African americans after reconstruction

Question 24

what voting restrictions were there

Answer 24

• grandfather clause
• poll tax
• white primary

Question 25

grandfather clause

Answer 25

If one failed literacy test they can vote if father or grandfather voted before 1867. (blacks excluded from this by the year 1867 as blacks couldn’t vote yet.)

Question 26

literacy test

Answer 26

Tests of reading and writing (not really focused on that though) Must pass in order to vote

Question 27

poll tax

Answer 27

one had to pay a tax in order to vote many blacks did not have the money

Question 28

white primary

Answer 28

Only those who belonged to a political party could vote & they would not allow blacks to join

Question 29

equal protection clause

Answer 29

all races get protection under the law of the US

Question 30

amendment 13

Answer 30

ended US slavery

Question 31

amendment 14

Answer 31

Anyone born in the US is a citizen of the US and of the state I which they live

Question 32

amendment 15

Answer 32

African american MALE suffrage

Question 33

W.E.B Dubois

Answer 33

niagra movement, thought black people needed better education, teacher at uni of atl

Question 34

plessy vs ferguson

Answer 34

racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality

Question 35

black codes

Answer 35

laws that ensured to continuance of segregation