SI Session 09/10/25 Study Guide: Growing Urbanization/Gilded Age Politics

Navitism

Those loyal to their country and hate outsiders (immigrants)

Gilded Age

People leaving the country side to move to big cities

Tenaments

Boor and cramped buildings not owned by the people living in them

Page Act

Bowered Women from East Asia from coming to be Prostitues

Republicans

Political party that liked federal government and high tariffs

Democrats

Political party that liked limited federal government, advocated for states’ rights, and favored low tariffs

Bland-Allison Act

Expanded money circulation by producing more silver coins, President Hayes vetoed the act but was overridden by congress

American Protective Association & Immigration Restriction League

Catholics & Jews contaminated Anglo-Saxon race

Chinese Exclusion Act

Barred all Chinese laborers from entering U.S. for 10 years

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

US most outstanding REALIST author - “Adventures of Tom Sawyer” “Adventures of Huckleberry Fin”

Theodore Dreiser

NATURALIST writer meaning human beings tossed around by forces beyond their control

Social Darwinism

opposed reform and government regulation of business, housing and sanitation

Local and State Politics

corruption, bribery was expected

Who won all but two elections from 1868 to 1912?

Republicans

Which party during the Gilded Age said to “vote like you shot?”

Republicans

Which party favored strict state government?

Democrats

a movement that emphases the truthfulness of the world

Realism