Apush Glided Age

Person/Place/Thing | Who/What | When/Where | Significant Individuals | So What:Significance | Chinese Exclusionary Act | President Chester A. Arthur signed the act banning Chinese immigrants from working for 10 years | May 6th, 1882 | President Chester A. Arthur | The United States was supposed to offer freedom, but instead they passed the first law restricting immigration into the United States. | Knights of Labor | A secret workingmen’s organization formed in 1860 to defend the interests of labor. | 1860’s-1949 | Terence Powderly | This gave Americans a chance to give a say on their wages, working hours, working conditions, etc. without having the major consequences of the employer firing them, blacklisting them or doing lockouts of the companies. | The Comstock Act | Amendment for the post office that made it illegal to send “obscure” things through the mail | March 3rd, 1873 | Anthony Comstock | It banned contraceptives and textbooks. It was as the first act of censorship in America. | The Ash Can School | Poor New York streets showed the realistic artistic movement | Early 20th century | William Glackens,Robert Henry, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn | It showed the living environment of the poor and immigrants. | The Social Gospel | They applied Christian ethics to social problems | Early 20th century in Canada and the U.S. | Richard Ely, Josiah Strong, Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch | It helped the women’s suffrage movement, |

Person/Place/Thing | Who/What | When/Where | Significant Individuals | So What:Significance | The Billion Dollar Congress | | Legislature branch March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1891 | Benjamin Harrison | | Yellow journalism | | | | | The Populist Party | | | | | Plessy v. Ferguson | | | | | Vaudeville | | | |