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Hodges U.S. History
Ch. 15 and 16 Study Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The island through which immigrants passed to enter the United States on the West Coast. | Angel Island |
| A law enacted in 1882 that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| An agreement that limited the immigration of skilled workers to the United States in exchanges for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation orders. | Gentlemen's Agreement |
| An ideal that is based on favoring the interests of native born people over that of immigrants. This led to anti-immigrant groups and demands for restrictions on immigrants. | Nativism |
| This term refers to the mixing of different cultures whose people blended together and abandoned their native languages and traditions. | Melting Pot |
| The island immigrants passed through to gain entry into the United States on the East Coast | Ellis Island |
| Republicans who opposed changes to the spoils system | Stalwarts |
| law enacted in 1883 that established a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to government jobs by means of the merit system | Pendlten Act |
| This individual ran against Grover Cleveland for President in 1888 and won. His campaign was paid for by companies who supported large tariffs. | Benjamin Harrison |
| An illegal use of poltiical influence for personal gain. | Graft |
| As President this individual was a reformer and tried unsuccessfully to lower tariffs | Grover Cleveland |
| Tried unsuccessfully to get Congress to support his reforms. He was successful in ending corruption in customshouses. | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| An organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support. | Political Machine |
| This President was a Stalwart Republican but became a reformer after he took office. He is responsible for the Pendleton Act. | Chester A. Arthur |
| The practice of winning candidates’ rewards their supporters with government jobs. | Spoils System |
| This President gave most of his support to reformers and was assassinated while in office. | James A. Garfield |
| An annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote | Poll Tax |
| A test administred by voter registration officials imposted by law in Southern states. It's purpose was mainly to restrict the African Americans from voteing. | Literacy Test |
| Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to seperate white and black people in public and private facilities. | Jim Crow Laws |
| He believed that racism would end once and African Americans acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society. He also founded the Tuskegee Institute. | Booker T. Washington |
| The first African American to receive a doctorate degree from Harvard. He strongly disagreed with Booker T. Washington and founded the Niagara Movement. | W. E. B. Du Bois |
| A mob action in which a person is executed without a trial, often by hanging. | Lynching |
| She fought for racial justice as a reporter and later started moved north to continue her fight against lynching. | Ida B. Wells |
| a provision in the constitutions of some Southern States that exempted whites from the strict voting requirements used to keep African Americans from the polls. | grandfather clause |
| In this case the Supreme Court ruled in favor of officials who barred African Americans from voting as the Fifteenth Amendement only restricted what types of voter discrimination could be used. | United States v. Reese |
| A seperation of people based on race. | Segregation |
| A system in which workers are bound in servitude until their debts are paid. | Debt Peonage |
| An 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the “separate but equal" doctrine. | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| This individual was a landscape architect lead the movement toward planned urban parks within cities. | Fredrick Law Olmstead |
| The designer of the ten-story Wainwright building making him the first to build a skyscraper. | Louis Sullivan |
| This individual invented roll film and the Kodak camera | George Eastman |
| This individual is known as a novelist and a humorist whose works have become American Classics that portrayed real American life. | Mark Twain |
| a business man that was the first to bring the concept of the department store to the United States. | Marshall Field |
| This newspaper owner competed with Joseph Pulitzer to sell newspapers by printed sensational news articles. | William Randoplh Hearst |
| These brothers invented the first successful airplane. | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| A development in architecture that allowed cities to expand upward allowing for the maximum usage of space within cities. | skyscrapers |
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