PeopleFacts MISC

What did a person have to do to get a government job after the Pendleton Act was passed? pass an exam

What did political machines want in exchange for providing new city dwellers with jobs and homes? votes

What did the presidential elections in 1876 & 1888 have in common besides winning the most popular votes? The candidates still lost the election any way

lowered crop prices What effect did new technology that helped farmers produce more crops have on the whole farming industry?

What term represents the belief that literature and art should be presented in style like regular life? realism

How were Republicans viewed in the late 1800s? Party of Reform

How were Democrats viewed in the the late 1800s? Party of Personal Liberty

What are people called who used their wealth to help society? Philantropists

Who was kept out of the U.S. after Congress passed laws against immigration? convicts, paupers, mentally ill

literacy test & poll taxes Name 2 ways African Americans were discouraged from voting in the late 1880s.

50 cents How much did immigrants have to pay to enter the U.S.?

He was arrested for riding in an “all-white” train car. What caused Homer Plessy to file his case against Ferguson?

He said that the 14 th amendment said that all men are equal. Why did Plessy think the law was wrong?

They believed that you could be separate and still be equal. Why did the Supreme Court decide the Plessy v. Ferguson case the way they did?

Blacks and whites had to use separate facilities, and whites could legally discriminate against blacks for 50 years. What two effects did Plessy v. Ferguson have on the U.S.?

graft What term means getting money through illegal ways?

Kansas To what state did Pap Singleton lead African-American “Exodusters” to escape poor conditions in the South?

Few laws were passed. What happened when Republicans controlled the Senate and Democrats controlled the House of Representatives in the 1870s?

segregation What term means separating the races?

James Garfield Which president was assassinated because he refused to give out jobs in the spoils system?

stop political corruption Why was Civil Service Reform needed?

The South enforced segregation. How was the South different from the North regarding racial segregation?

Gospel of Wealth What term came from a book by Carnegie that meant sharing your great fortune to further social progress.?

Horatio Alger Who was the minister who wrote over 100 “rags to riches” novels?

religious freedom, no military service, jobs, & able to move up in society Why did Europeans come to America?

Only the federal government could control interstate trade, NOT states. What did the Supreme Court decide in 1886 on the Wabash v. Illinois case?

less immigration What did Nativists want?

Stalwarts What were Republicans called that liked political machines and the spoils system?

Mugwumps What were reformers called who were more moral leaders concerned with helping the nation more than with helping a political party?

Jim Crow Laws What were laws called in Southern states that kept whites from blacks?