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African Americans
- There were literacy tests that immigrants couldn't pass.
- The poll tax was too expensive so they couldn't vote.
- There was also the grandfather law which meant that immigrants whose grandfathers couldn't vote couldn't vote
- The Jim Crow laws caused segregation.
- "separate but equal"
- IN THE WEST
- Mexicans usually worked on railroads mainly in the southwest.
- Debt peonage was where work would to pay off debts.
- The immigration of Asians stopped dues to Chinese mobs.
- The Native Americans were pushed off their land and forced to move.
- The Trail of Tears was one example of this.
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Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?
- Jane Adams was someone who decided to change slum life.
- She won a Nobel peace price.
- Ellen Gates Starr helped her create a settlement house in Chicago.
- Most Germans lived in Queens and the Bronx.
- Manhattan had a lot of Irish people.
- Brooklyn was shared by everyone.
Ch. 7.3
What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?
- they try to get certain candidates elected
- they run the govt. of a town
- they offered services to people.
- mayors were created
- immigrants had chances to grow
- it was the start of local govt.
- they collected more loyal voter
Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.
- he ran a group that would but immigrant's votes.
- he was convicted of stealing 25-45mil from new york taxpayers.
- he overcharged taxpayers to get more cash
- Thomas Nast took down Boss Tweed with political cartoons.
- Head of the democratic political machine.
What caused all this corruption in government?
- Patronage was when people would pay for the presidential campaigns to get stuff done.
- Stalwarts wanted the system kept.
What laws came about to reform government?
- The govt. made a merit system that hired people who could do jobs and not just randomly.
- Businesses wanted higher tariffs.
- The Mckinley tariff act raised tariffs.
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William Mckinley were all presidents during the late 1800's. Were they a reform president or a status quo president?
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