Unit 6 Vocab Part Two (1870s-early 1910s)

Question 1

Social Gospel

Answer 1

demanded better housing and living conditions for the poor

Question 2

The “Gilded Age”

Answer 2

coined by Mark Twain, shiny surface masked reality

Question 3

Taylorism

Answer 3

developed by Frederick W. Taylor, system of scientific management

Question 4

Omaha Platform

Answer 4

platform for 1892 election, called for free coinage of silver and paper money

Question 5

Pendleton Act

Answer 5

passed to stop “spoils system”

Question 6

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 6

signed by President Arthur, prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers

Question 7

NAACP

Answer 7

wanted to end discrimination and segregation

Question 8

Haymarket Square incident

Answer 8

began with protest against police brutality, dynamite bomb killed several peopleKnights of Labor were blamed which led to their downfall

Question 9

Wobblies (I.W.W)

Answer 9

took unskilled African Americans, embraced rhetoric of class conflict and endorsed violent tactics

Question 10

muckrakers

Answer 10

Journalists who wrote about injustices and exposed the filth of society

Question 11

How the Other Half Lives

Answer 11

John Riis, told public about immigrant lives and those who live in tenements

Question 12

The Jungle

Answer 12

Upton Sinclair, exposed meat packing industry in Chicago

Question 13

Lincoln Steffans

Answer 13

NY reporter, wrote series of articles called “The Shame of the Cities”

Question 14

Munn v. Illinois

Answer 14

“Granger laws” were upheld in this case

Question 15

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 15

established federal governments’ right to oversee RR activities

Question 16

WCTU

Answer 16

advocated for alcohol prohibition

Question 17

tenements

Answer 17

overcrowded housing for workers and the poor

Question 18

political machines

Answer 18

controlled political parties in cities, boss leads machine and attempts to get votes for his party

Question 19

Progressive Movement

Answer 19

stopped unfair business competition, political corruption, social reform, etc.

Question 20

16th amendment

Answer 20

federal income tax authorized

Question 21

17th amendment

Answer 21

allowed pop. election of Senators

Question 22

18th amendment

Answer 22

banned sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol

Question 23

19th amendment

Answer 23

gave women right to vote

Question 24

Great Migration

Answer 24

movement of African Americans

Question 25

Knights of Labor

Answer 25

Terence v. Powderly leads, welcomed unskilled and skilled workers, wanted a society in which laborers owned the industries