5.3
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- Lynching
- Murder of an individual by a group or mob.
- Jim Crow Laws
- Laws passed by Southern state legislatures in 1881 to create and enforce segregation in public places. The name Jim Crow came from a character in a minstrel song.
- Populism
- Political system that supported free coinage of silver, work reforms, immigration restrictions, and government ownership of railroads, telegraph, and telephone systems.
- Booker T. Washington
- He believed that African Americans had to accept segregation for the moment to better their situation through acquiring farming and vocational skills. He was born into slavery.
- Lynching
- Murder of an individual by a group or mob.
- Nativism
- A sociopolitical policy favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants.
- Ellis Island v. Angel Island
- Many European immigrants passed through Ellis Island, while many Asian immigrants passed through Angel Island.
- Gold Standard
- The U.S. dollar could be redeemed only for gold in the U.S. Treasury
- Tenement
- Crowded, rundown apartment buildings where many immigrants lived.
- Gold Standard
- A dollar could be redeemed only for gold in the U.S. Treasury. It reduced the amount of money in circulation and hurt farmers.
- Tammany Hall
- Most notorious political machine that was headed by William Marcy Tweed.
- Social Gospel
- The idea that faith should be expressed through good works.
- Web Dubois
- He believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediately. He helped found the Niagara Movement in 1905 to fight for equal rights.
- 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.
- Political Machine
- An organization of professional politicians. It made cities run better, but they were often corrupt.