HISTORY 1302 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Sweatshops Ans✓✓✓(1830-1850) workers work long hours with little
pay in dangerous working conditions, later caused may labor laws,
including minimum wage laws, child labor laws, ect.
Working Women Ans✓✓✓(1800s) since men didn't like working in
factories many women worked in factories as well as taking care of the
house and children, they got paid a fraction of what men were getting
paid for the same job
Jacob Riis Ans✓✓✓Danish- American journalist and photographer, one
of the muckrackers (wanted to improve conditions in cities)
Tenements Ans✓✓✓a rundown apartment building, found in England
and US. Originally referred to any rented accommodation. The New
York State legislature defined it in the Tenement House Act of 1867
J. Pierpont Morgan Ans✓✓✓American financier and banker who
dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation (late 19th and
early 20th centuries.) "Greatest banker"
Horatio Alger Ans✓✓✓writer of the rag to riches stories and effected
America in gilded era. (late 19 century)
,The Great Uprising (1877) Ans✓✓✓b&o railroads cut wages for the 3
time in 1 year, workers go on strike (100 casualties)
The Knights of Labor Ans✓✓✓largest and one of the most important
American labor organizations of the 1880s. The Knights started as a
secret society with many elaborate rituals. By 1878 they became more of
an open group. They greatly expanded their membership in the 1880s.
The Homestead Act Ans✓✓✓US federal government gave away 10% of
US land away for free. (1862) Any adult who had never taken up arms
against the U.S. government, Women and immigrants who had applied
for citizenship could apply.
Eugene Debs Ans✓✓✓was an American union leader, one of the
founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times
the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the
United States
New Immigration Ans✓✓✓no advantages, came from Italy, Russian
Jews, Poland, Chinese. Moved in cities (caused growth in cities ) 1905 a
million immigrants came to the us, created communities.
Nativism Ans✓✓✓the policy of protecting the interests of native-born
or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
, The Chinese Exclusion Act Ans✓✓✓It was the first significant law
restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the
Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President
Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on
Chinese labor immigration.
The Great Migration Ans✓✓✓The Great Migration was the movement
of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States
to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916
and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American
population lived in the American South.
Political Machines Ans✓✓✓A political machine is a political group in
which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a
corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who
receive rewards for their efforts.
The Concentration Policy Ans✓✓✓The concentration policy was a
broad term used to describe the many policies, treaties, and systems
enacted in an effort to move all of the Native Americans in the east into
the west, and then later force them into small, defined reservations
throughout the west.
The Sand Creek Massacare Ans✓✓✓massacre in the American Indian
Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of
Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry[3] under the command of U.S. Army
Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne
and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,[4] killing and
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Sweatshops Ans✓✓✓(1830-1850) workers work long hours with little
pay in dangerous working conditions, later caused may labor laws,
including minimum wage laws, child labor laws, ect.
Working Women Ans✓✓✓(1800s) since men didn't like working in
factories many women worked in factories as well as taking care of the
house and children, they got paid a fraction of what men were getting
paid for the same job
Jacob Riis Ans✓✓✓Danish- American journalist and photographer, one
of the muckrackers (wanted to improve conditions in cities)
Tenements Ans✓✓✓a rundown apartment building, found in England
and US. Originally referred to any rented accommodation. The New
York State legislature defined it in the Tenement House Act of 1867
J. Pierpont Morgan Ans✓✓✓American financier and banker who
dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation (late 19th and
early 20th centuries.) "Greatest banker"
Horatio Alger Ans✓✓✓writer of the rag to riches stories and effected
America in gilded era. (late 19 century)
,The Great Uprising (1877) Ans✓✓✓b&o railroads cut wages for the 3
time in 1 year, workers go on strike (100 casualties)
The Knights of Labor Ans✓✓✓largest and one of the most important
American labor organizations of the 1880s. The Knights started as a
secret society with many elaborate rituals. By 1878 they became more of
an open group. They greatly expanded their membership in the 1880s.
The Homestead Act Ans✓✓✓US federal government gave away 10% of
US land away for free. (1862) Any adult who had never taken up arms
against the U.S. government, Women and immigrants who had applied
for citizenship could apply.
Eugene Debs Ans✓✓✓was an American union leader, one of the
founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times
the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the
United States
New Immigration Ans✓✓✓no advantages, came from Italy, Russian
Jews, Poland, Chinese. Moved in cities (caused growth in cities ) 1905 a
million immigrants came to the us, created communities.
Nativism Ans✓✓✓the policy of protecting the interests of native-born
or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
, The Chinese Exclusion Act Ans✓✓✓It was the first significant law
restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the
Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President
Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on
Chinese labor immigration.
The Great Migration Ans✓✓✓The Great Migration was the movement
of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States
to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916
and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American
population lived in the American South.
Political Machines Ans✓✓✓A political machine is a political group in
which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a
corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who
receive rewards for their efforts.
The Concentration Policy Ans✓✓✓The concentration policy was a
broad term used to describe the many policies, treaties, and systems
enacted in an effort to move all of the Native Americans in the east into
the west, and then later force them into small, defined reservations
throughout the west.
The Sand Creek Massacare Ans✓✓✓massacre in the American Indian
Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of
Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry[3] under the command of U.S. Army
Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne
and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,[4] killing and
