The Gilded Age and Progressive Movement

Whites accused Chinese workers on the West Coast of

• taking “white” jobs.

• claiming the best land.

• destroying “Oriental” schools.

• attacking railroad property.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Stopped U.S. cities from hiring Chinese workers.

• took away the U.S. citizenship of Chinese Americans.

• prevented Chinese laborers from entering the country and stripped them of their Civil Rights.

• forced Chinese children to attend segregated schools.

Unlike African American men, women in the late 1800s

• had to pay a poll tax to vote.

• were able to vote under grandfather clauses.

• did not have the legal right to vote.

• experienced no restrictions when voting.

What issues did muckraker cartoonists like Joseph Keppler portray through their illustrations?

• political corruption

• current events

• influences of big corporations

• all of these

After the Civil War, farmers’ debt (amount of money they owed to people)

• increased as a result of falling crop prices.

• decreased as a result of lower transportation costs.

• decreased as a result of falling crop prices.

• increased as a result of their stronger influence in politics.

The Farmers’ Alliance did which of the following?

• encouraged farmers to disband cooperatives

• excluded African American farmers

• established postal banks to provide farmers with low-interest loans

• ran candidates in local elections to end the gold standard

The spoils system made political parties more powerful by

• allowing party workers to push for civil service reform.

• encouraging wealthy businessmen to donate money to the party.

• blocking legislation introduced by the opposing political party.

• rewarding people in the party with government jobs. (corruption)

A fee charging people in order to vote is called

• Antitrust

• Poll tax

• Black code

• Jim Crow

Organizations that brought farmers together to form farm cooperatives

• famers codes

• farmers alliance

• Muckraker

• Political Machines

Term used to describe a journalist who worked to show the problems in society.

• Jim Crow

• Poll tax

• Union

• Muckracker