High School U.S. History Worksheet (Due Friday, December 5th)
Chapter 9
Issues of the Gilded Age, 1877-1900
Section 1: Segregation and Social Tensions
Objectives:
 Assess how whites created a segregated society in the South and how African Americans
responded.
 Analyze efforts to limit immigration and the effects
 Compare the situations of Mexican Americans and of women to those of other groups.
Terms and People:
1. Jim Crow laws --
2. poll tax --
3. literacy test -4. grandfather clause -5. Booker T. Washington -6. W.E.B. Dubois -7. Ida B. Wells -8. Las Gorras Blancas -Short Answer:
9. What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws?
10. How did southern states limit African Americans voting rights without affecting the
voting rights of poor white people?
11. On what major issue did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois disagree?
12. How did Ida B. Wells use her skills to fight discrimination?
13. What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
14. What resulted from the 1886 case Yick v. Hopkins?
15. How did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo attempt to protect the property rights of
Mexican Americans?
16. What was the main goal for the women’s movement?
17. What successes did women achieve in the years after Reconstruction?
Section 2: Political and Economic Challenges
Objectives:
 Analyze the issue of corruption in national politics in the 1870s and 1880s.
 Discuss civil service reform during the 1870s and 1880s.
 Assess the importance of economic issues in the politics of the Gilded Age.
Terms and People:
18. spoils system --
19. civil service --
20. Pendleton Civil Service Act --
21. gold standard --
Short Answer:
22. How did the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats actually weaken the
federal government?
23. Analyzing Political Cartoons: On pg. 274 of your book, analyze the political cartoon and
answer the following:
a. Why do you think the businessmen are draw so large?
24. How did the civil service exam reform the spoils system?
25. How did a violent act encourage civil service reform?
Section 3: Farmers and Populism
Objectives:
 Analyze the problems farmers faced and the groups they formed to address them.
 Assess the goals of the Populists, and explain why the Populist Party did not last.
Terms and People:
26. Oliver H. Kelley --
27. Grange --
28. Populist Party --
29. William Jennings Bryan --
30. William McKinley --
Short Answer:
31. What were the main problems facing farmers?
32. Why did farmers blame businesses for their problems?
33. What was one goal of the Grange?
34. What goals did the Grange achieve?
35. How did the Populist Party differ from other political parties of the time?
36. What was the effect of William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech?