Industrialization, Urbanization, Populism

The Populist Party was established in the 1890s to

• ensure that the US stayed on the gold standard

• reduce the tax burden on the wealthy industrialist class

• support the candidacy of William McKinley

• protect the political and economic interests of farmers and laborers

Businessmen during the Gilded Age often favored relaxed immigration laws because they

• were advocates of multicultural education

• valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor

• were supporters of the Temperance Movement

• remembered their immigrant heritage

The following all contributed to the Populist "revolt" EXCEPT

• protective tariffs made the items farmers needed more expensive

• the inability to get Homestead acts passed to provide cheap land in the west

• the farmers could not get any real aid from the Democratic or Republican parties

• maintaining the gold standard for our currency resulted in low farm prices

Which group of immigrants poured into the US between 1890 and 1920?

• Scandinavians and Germans

• Irish, Spanish and Italians

• English, Scottish and Welsh

• immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

Ciritics of the "New Immigration" of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries opposed a minimum wage because

• factories would refuse to hire immigrant laborers

• they believed immigrants took farmland from native born Americans

• immigrants generally would work for less money than American citizens

• immigrants were generally wealthier than American citizens

Immigrants from southern Europe who arrived in the US during the late 19th and early 20th century tended to settle in

• the west

• the south

• the midwest

• the northeast

in 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country for 10 years?

• China

• Ireland

• Japan

• Mexico

wide-spread anti-Chinese sentiment in the 1880s resulted in

• Congressional action aimed at prohibiting further Chinese immigration

• legal segregation of all Chinese Americans into separate urban districts

• deportation of all Chinese-Americans living in California, Oregon, and Washington

• native-born Chinese Americans having their citizenship revoked

in an effort to deal with an increasing number of immigrants, in 1892 the US government

• banned all immigrants into the coutnry

• reduced the number of years required to become a US citizen

• opened an immigration station on Ellis Island in NYC

• required all immigrants to speak English

Who was the leader of the infamous Tammany Hall political machine in NYC who was accused and convicted of stealing millions of dollars from the state treasury

• George Briggs

• Thomas Whitney

• Chester Arthur

• William Tweed