Chapter 5 section 3 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Tenement houses
Cheaply made houses for working class
Settlement house
Place for immigrants to:
Learn english
Get job skills
Get childcare
Social gospel
Religious groups trying to help society
Gold standard
Process of trading raw gold for the equal weight in coins
Free silver
The idea of doing the same as gold standard for silver. Was backed by farmers and miners who wanted inflation.
Lynching
To be murdered by a mob
Who was Jane Addams?
I Founded the Hull house
Who was William Marcy Tweed?
I was the most famous machine boss
Who was James Garfield?
I was president in the 1880s
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
I lost the 1896 election. I was democrat and supported gold standard.
Who was William McKinley?
I won the 1896 election. I was republican and supported free silver.
Who was Booker T Washington?
I was born to slaves. I wanted to accept slavery and get better at farming and job skills before fighting it. Founder of tuskegee Institute.
Who was WEB DuBois?
I was big on education. I went to harvard and disagreed with Booker T Washingon.
Chinese Exclusion act of 1882
Sets quotas on the number of chinese immigrants allowed in the US
Ellis Island
East coast immigration station
Angel Island
West coast immigration station
Hull house
Settlement house in chicago founded by Jane Addams
Tweed ring
Tweed and his friends stealing tax payer money
Credit Mobilier
Major scandel during Grant’s presidency
the Grange
Helped farmers succeed with the low prices of crops
Jim Crow laws
Made segreation legal in the south
Plessy vs Ferguson
Court case in 1896 stated that it was ok to segreagate in “Seperate but equal” facilities
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded by blacks and whites (DuBois)
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Gave Native Americans Citizenship