C4 Urban America 19-20

In the early 1860s, Chinese immigrants came to the United States to 

What was Tammany Hall?

Some Populist proposals were enacted decades after the party's demise, like governmental regulation of the economy &

When Republican candidates supported high tariffs on imported goods, they received large contributions from whom?

During the late nineteenth century, which of the following states received the most immigration from China? 

In response to the Supreme Court's ruling in WABASH v. ILLINOIS, Congress created the 

What philosophy held that some people fail in life because of circumstances beyond their control?

In which American city did the first salaried baseball team play?

What does "gilded" mean?

In 1896, the Supreme Court's decision in PLESSY v. FERGUSON upheld the doctrine of 

What was the most common form of mass transit in the late 1800s?

To win the votes of poor whites in the 1890s, Democratic leaders in the South began appealing to 

The period between about 1870 and 1900 was called the Gilded Age because

Political machines provided city dwellers with many necessities, but many machine politicians grew rich as the result of

Mary Church Terrell campaigned against lynching, worked for woman suffrage, and helped found what?

The Supreme Court case WABASH v ILLINOIS established the principle that 

What did some industrial leaders use Social Darwinism to justify?

Booker T Washington, the most famous African American of the late 1800s, urged African Americans to 

The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late nineteenth century changed American society by 

Nativism in the late 1800s was focused on Asian immigrants, Jewish immigrants and 

In late nineteenth-century urban America, most people who lived in “streetcar suburbs” were

In public schools, immigrant children learned English & were taught about Amer history & culture, a process known as

Who was William M. Tweed?

Which of the following organizations formed exchanges to help farmers?

In contrast to Social Darwinists, social reformers believed that society’s problems could be fixed only by

Crime was a growing problem in American cities in the late nineteenth century, but even bigger threats were posed by

Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants

Why was the Workingman's Party of California formed?

The Social Gospel movement worked to better conditions in cities according to 

In 1883, the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation when it overturned 

The failure of the Grange & Farmer's Alliance to address the economic problems farmers faced led to the formation of

Many immigrants left Euro to escape poverty, restrictions of social class, high food price, pop pressure, military svc &

What did the philosophy of Social Darwinism apply Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to?

Between 1860 and 1899, an average of 187 lynchings occurred each year, with the majority in

What established a pro civil service by requiring govt jobs be filled by competitive written exams instead of patronage?

In the late nineteenth century, southern states passed Jim Crow laws in order to

In response to economic problems faced by farmers, Grangers created cooperatives that were intended to

Which of the following African American leaders was particularly concerned with protecting & exercising voting rights?

In 1886, African American farmers responded to discrimination they faced in the South by forming the

In the late 1900s cities, docs, lawyers, engineers, managers, architects, and teachers made up a growing___

How tall was the world's first skyscraper, that was built in 1885?