Immigration
Schemers and Dreamers
Laws, Acts, Amendments
People
Terms
100
Most immigrants went through this place in NY City
What is Ellis Island?
100
Powerful man in 1870's NY City
Who is William Marcy "Boss" Tweed?
100
No alcohol movement
What is the "temperance" movement?
100
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Who is Mark Twain?
100
Mob murders in the South
What is lynching?
200
The reasons immigrants came to America in the 1800's
What is political, economic reasons?
200
Alfred Beach's idea in NYC
What is the subway?
200
Equal rights under the law for all people
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Famous Sioux Chief--led his people in the Ghost Dance
Who is Sitting Bull?
200
Mark Twain coined this period of extreme excess
What is the Gilded Age?
300
Restrict or limit Asian immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Unofficial governments right next to real governments
What is a political machine?
300
Voting
What is sufferage?
300
The "Wizard of Menlo Park"
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
Fictional character that stood for policy of segregation in the South
What is Jim Crow?
400
German immigrant. Hated slavery, loved freedom of speech
Who is Carl Schurz?
400
The "Prince of Humbug"
Who is P. T. Barnum?
400
"Separate but Equal" Supreme Court case
What is "Plessy v. Ferguson?"
400
Famous photographer of immigrants
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
People who want to make change
What are reformers?
500
Anti-Catholic, Anti-Immigration Party
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
500
Cartoonist who poked fun of Boss Tweed
Who is Thomas Nast?
500
Right to Vote (except for women)
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
Advised people to win their economic freedom first
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
Can't be tried for the same crime twice
What is "double jeopardy?"
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