progressive era - quiz on 11/16 PART 1

Question 1

Pogrom

Answer 1

violent attack against ethnic/religious group

Question 2

Steerage

Answer 2

large open area beneath ships deck, often used to have traveling immigrants, cheapest tickets

Question 3

Quarantine

Answer 3

time of isolation to prevent spread of disease

Question 4

Ghettos

Answer 4

area in which one ethnic/racial group dominates

Question 5

Grandfather Clause

Answer 5

passage in law that exempts a group of people from obeying in law, if they met conditions before law was passed

Question 6

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 6

1896 supreme court decision that segregation was legal, as long as separate places for blacks were = to whites

Question 7

Poll Tax

Answer 7

speical fee that must be paid before someone can vote

Question 8

Jim Crow Law

Answer 8

1890 - required segregation of public services by race

Question 9

Lynching

Answer 9

murder of person by mob without lawful trial

Question 10

NAACP

Answer 10

organization formed in 1909 to abolish segregation&discrimination, civil rights for African Americans

Question 11

Alien

Answer 11

a noncitizen

Question 12

Suburb

Answer 12

Residential community surrounding a city

Question 13

Tenement

Answer 13

low-cost apartment that often has poor standards, fits as many people

Question 14

Dumbbell Tenement

Answer 14

narrow building, allowing light air/air shafts

Question 15

Political Machine

Answer 15

unofficial city organization designed to keep particular party/group in power

Question 16

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 16

1907 agreement US & Japan restricted Japanese immigration

Question 17

Nativism

Answer 17

extreme form of fascism shaped by Hitler’s ideas

Question 18

Settlement House

Answer 18

community center organized to provide services to the urban poor

Question 19

Assimilation

Answer 19

process when people in one culture merge into/become part of another culture

Question 20

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 20

law passed 1882 prohibiting Chinese laborers from entering the country, did not prevent entry of previous US citizens

Question 21

Referendum

Answer 21

direct vote when everyone votes on a specific issue

Question 22

Reform

Answer 22

advocating for social & political changes like corruption, inequality, poor working conditions

Question 23

Recall

Answer 23

allowed citizen to remove elected officials before their terms were up

Question 24

Initiative

Answer 24

allowed people to propose new laws/changes to existing laws direclty, getting enough signatures

Question 25

Direct Primary

Answer 25

increase power of individual voter in selecting candidates for public office

Question 26

17th Amendment

Answer 26

established election of US senators by the people, increase democratic participation

Question 27

Jane Addams

Answer 27

Hull House movement. aid to immigrant, working class & poor

Question 28

Lewis Hines

Answer 28

National Child Labor Committee. photographed unsafe conditions

Question 29

WEB DuBois

Answer 29

NAACP, fought against racism & segregation

Question 30

Thomas Nast

Answer 30

political cartoonist, drew attention to Boss Tweed crimes

Question 31

Jacob Riis

Answer 31

police report, uncovered people lives in tenement, photography in newpaper and recognized by Roosevelt

Question 32

Ida Tarbell

Answer 32

journalist, wrote about childhood experiences and research of Standard Oil Company

Question 33

Upton Sinclair

Answer 33

journalist, exposed work in meat packing industry

Question 34

Booker T. Washington

Answer 34

- born in Virginia as a slave - advocated for accommodation, not striving for social/political pursuits but focus on development economic power - first black in the white house

Question 35

Ida B. Wells

Answer 35

African American journalist & civil rights activist, fought against lynching

Question 36

Boss Tweed

Answer 36

used his position to control wealth & influence through corrup ways, stole money, political fraud

Question 37

Info about Immigrants:

Answer 37

- arrived in late 1800s -