APUSH Period 6

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Homestead Act

• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Severalty Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Machines

• Credit Unions

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• Social Darwinism
• Gospel of Wealth

The Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation. This is referred to as

• direct voting
• civil service reform
• political machines
• civil labor unions

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Dawes Act
• Sherman Anti Trust Act

• Munn vs Illinois

A person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Populist

• Nativists

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book, How the Other Half Lives.

• William Jennings Bryan

• Ida Tarbell

• Carrie Nation

• Jacob Riis

How did Knights of Labor differ from American Federation of Labor?

• KoL advocated strikes as tactic
• KoL opened membership to women and minorities

• KoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal level
• KoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits

Which of following was most closely associated with the Populist Party because of the Election of 1896?

• Jane Addams
• William Jennings Bryan
• Eugene Debs
• Grover Cleveland