Lesson 4

Question 1

a period of rapid industrialization and economic growth, but also of significant social and political inequality

Answer 1

Gilded Age

Question 2

any multi-family dwelling used for rental purposes; squalid houses

Answer 2

Tenement

Question 3

powerful political organizations within a city that mobilized large blocks of working-class and immigrant voters and often engaged in corrupt and illegal activities

Answer 3

Political machine

Question 4

established primary in immigrant neighborhoods; offered a wide range of social and educational services for the poor; Hull House

Answer 4

Settlement house

Question 5

sought to redefine the urban space

Answer 5

City Beautiful Movement

Question 6

more free time and expandable income (lower birthrates and domestic servants took over household duties), participation in activism and charities, access to higher education (colleges for women)

Answer 6

New Woman

Question 7

Platform aimed to limit the power of big business and called for more intervention from the government; Disband monopolies, introduce national banks and government-owned railroads, and support the small farmer and industrial worker

Answer 7

People’s Party

Question 8

alleviate the plight of farmers

Answer 8

Farmers’ alliance

Question 9

Called for adoption of public works projects and rejection of laissez-faire, started with 100 unemployed, many men joined in March; led by Populist Jacob Coxey

Answer 9

Coxey’s Army

Question 10

a community where a single company controls most or all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and essential services.

Answer 10

Company town

Question 11

started by workers of the Pullman Palace Car Co. after wage cuts and layoffs; strike lasted 6 weeks and expanded nationally, nearly shutting down railroad travel altogether

Answer 11

Pullman strike