Farmer Challenges and Solutions Immigration Political Corruption The Progressives U.S. Imperialism
100
What is price gouging by the railroads?
The primary economic concern of Midwestern farmers in the 1880s.
100
What is Angel Island?
The processing center for Asian immigration.
100
What is a political machine?
Name for a system of political bosses using patronage and graft to manipulate politics and society.
100
Who is Jane Addams?
Female reformer who created the first settlement house in Chicago.
100
What is the Spanish-American War?
The U.S. acquired five territories in this "splendid little war."
200
What is debt peonage?
The southern system of sharecropping often led to this.
200
What is a tenement?
Multi-family housing in large cities that were in disrepair and housed many immigrants.
200
What is the spoils system?
The system of providing political jobs for your friends and supporters.
200
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
His Progressive platform included the three C's: consumer protection, controlling corporations, and conservation.
200
What is Yellow Journalism?
This sensationalized form of writing helped push America toward war in the 1890s.
300
What is the Grange?
The farmer organization called "Patrons of Husbandry" was better known as this.
300
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Prevented Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. after 1882.
300
Who is Boss Tweed?
A famous political boss in NYC who was imprisoned for graft when he embezzled millions during NYC construction projects.
300
Who were the muckrakers?
These investigative journalists reported on the problems of industrialization and scandals in American society.
300
What is the Philippines?
The U.S. paid $50 million to Spain to acquire this territory, but had to fight a protracted guerilla war with its native population.
400
What is the People's Party or Populists?
This political party united farmers and industrial workers against big business.
400
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
When the Japanese agreed to slow immigration to the U.S. in return for integration of Japanese students in public schools.
400
What is Tammany Hall?
Famously corrupt Democratic organization in New York City.
400
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This legislation of 1890 tried to prevent monopolies.
400
Who is Jose Marti?
The poet and rebel leader of the Cuban Revolution.
500
What is bimetallism?
Populist William Jennings Bryan pushed for the integration of silver into the money supply which is also known as this.
500
What is the quota system?
The Immigration Act of 1924 used this type of system to slow the influx of "New Immigrants"
500
What is Credit Mobilier?
Famous railroad scandal during construction of the transcontinental railroad.
500
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This legislation in the 1880s attempted to regulate the railroads.
500
Alfred Mahan Thayer
One motivation for U.S. imperialism a book titled "The Influence of Sea Power upon History" written by this navy general.






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