(Select ANY that apply) Which of the following are classified as "New Immigrants/New Immigration"?

True/False: Old Immigrants/Old Immigration were primarily Protestant (some Catholics)

True/False: New Immigrants/New Immigration included Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Jews

"one who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality"

(Select ANY that apply) Which of the following was a reason for immigration into the US during the Industrial Era/Gilded Age?

Most immigrants that came to the US passed through ___________________________, a tiny island in New York Harbor.

The majority of immigrants moved to...

Term for: Relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background

The majority of Asian immigrants, immigrated to THIS portion of the US...

TRUE/FALSE: Asian Immigrants such as the Chinese and Japanese, faced a great deal of discrimination

The majority of Asian immigrants arriving to the West Coast, especially San Francisco, stopped at a barracks on ________________________________, before officially entering the country.

Term for: Hostility toward immigrants by “native-born” people

(Select ANY that apply) The rise in nativism was largely response to which of the following immigrant groups?

Why did many nativists particularly fear immigrants from Ireland or Italian?

True/False: Many labor unions argued that immigrants undermined American workers because they would work for low wages and accept jobs as strikebreakers

(Select ANY that apply) Which of the following revolutionized the American city during the Gilded Age?

True/False: As cities continued to grow, different socioeconomic groups (rich, middle class, poor) began to live in separate parts of town

What impact did industrialization have on the middle class?

Term for: crowded, multi-family apartments of the Gilded Age

Which of the following was TRUE of working class (poor) families in American cities?

Which of the following increased drastically within cities as a result of industrialization?

Term for: an informal political group designed to gain and keep power

This was the most famous political machine led by Boss Tweed...

Which of the following was TRUE of most political machines?

Why was the Second Industrial Revolution (in the US) dubbed "the Gilded Age"?

Term for: the belief that no matter what a person’s background is, they can still become successful through effort

American individualism became the inspiration for...

Term for: philosophy loosely derived from Charles Darwin’s theories (evolution, natural selection, etc.) - asserted that humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving

True/False: Social Darwinism was Charles Darwin's idea

True/False: Social Darwinism was used to argue racial disparities between whites and minorities (black, Asians, etc.) and rich vs poor (i.e. poor deserve to be poor)

True/False: Many devout Christians found the theories of Charles Darwin and derivatives of Darwin's ideas, such as Social Darwinism, offensive

True/False: Some Christians concluded that some of Charles Darwin's ideas, such as evolution, could have been God's way of creating the world

True/False: Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth argued that the rich should engage in philanthropy for the betterment of the poor (and humanity as a whole)

True/False: Some Americans embrace ideals of individualism and Social Darwinism, but others argued that society’s problems could be fixed only if Americans and their government began to take a more active role in regulating the economy and those in need

True/False: Despite the increase in standard of living, the gap between rich and poor (wealth gap) was also growing.

Movement that worked to improve conditions in cities (according to biblical ideals of charity and justice)

organized Bible studies, citizenship training, and group activities; low-cost boarding houses for young men

offered practical (cheap) aid and religious counseling

an institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English

The development of public education was essential because...

Term for: the process of acquiring or causing a person to acquire American traits and characteristics (much like “assimilation”)

True/False: Vocational Schools were introduced to teach skills required for specific trades

True/False: All black schools were created largely due to discrimination and the hope to provide black youth with quality education without discrimination

(Select ANY that apply) Which of the following were Grammar Schools designed to do?

new form of art and literature that focused on explaining the natural world ‘realistically’

Largely over what issue was President James A. Garfield (who opposed this 'issue') assassinated?

(Select ANY that apply) The Pendleton Act...

What was the purpose of the McKinley Tariff?

What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

political movement founded in the 1890s representing mainly farmers that favored free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other large industries

Populism originally formed to increase the political power of...

Which of the following led to financial struggles for farmers during the Gilded Age?

Greenbacks was the term for...

an ongoing increase in prices and decrease in the value of money

increase in the value of money and decrease in prices

an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and 1880s that worked to improve economic conditions for farmers

A store where farmers buy products from each other; an enterprise owned and operated by those who use its services

tax based on net income of an individual or business and which taxes different income levels at different rates

landless farmers who gave their landlords (many being former slave owners) a large portion of their crops as rent

Which of the following were measures taken (primarily by southern States) to limit the rights of blacks, provided by the Fifteenth Amendment?

One unforeseen issue with the laws the southern states enacted to suppress black voting, was that it also limited voting rights/willingness of poor whites. How did the South 'resolve' this issue?

the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

Along with segregation, Southern states passed laws that enforced discrimination called __________________________.

True/False: the Supreme Court overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which set the stage for legal segregation

Plessy v Ferguson was a Supreme Court case covering the issue of...