5.3
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- Social Gospel
- Idea that faith should be expressed through good works.
- Populism
- A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.
- Booker T. Washington
- Believed that African Americans had to accept segregation for now. He believed they could improve their situation by aquiring farming and vocational skills.
- Jane Addams
- One founder of the Hull House, one of the first American settlement houses.
- Settlement house
- Place where volunteers offered immigrants services such as English-language and job-training courses.
- Tammany Hall
- Most notorious political machine that was headed by William Marcy Tweed.
- Lynching
- Murder of an individual by a group or mob.
- Gold Standard
- The U.S. dollar could be redeemed only for gold in the U.S. Treasury.
- Jim Crow Laws
- laws passed by southern state legislatures to create and enforce segregation in public places.
- W. E. B Du Bois
- Believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediately. He helped found the Niagara Movement in 1905 to fight for equal rights.
- Nativism
- A sociopolitical policy favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants.
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Court Case in which Homer Plessy, an African American man, was arrested for sitting in a whites-only train compartment. The Supreme Court ruled against him. "Seperate but equal"
- Political Machine
- organization of professional politicians, which made cities run better, but they were often corrupt.
- Ellis Island v. Angel Island
- Many European immigrants passed through Ellis Island, while many Asian immigrants passed through Angel Island.
- Tenement
- Crowded, rundown apartment buildings where many immigrants lived.