Gilded Age
Time of greed and flashy materialism.
What is the Gilded Age?
105 new entry visas annually.
What is the limit to the Magnuson Act?
A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city.
What are rural-to-urban migrants?
Segregation laws were enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Democracy by Henry Adams.
What are books about the Gilded Age?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people.
What is mass transit?
Endorsements, slogans, catchy tunes, and newspaper ads.
What are common ways of advertising?
People who grew rich through the monopolies they created in the steel, petroleum, and transportation industries. (Hint: often known as captains of industry and robber barons)
What are entrepreneurs?
1882
When was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?
The growth of cities due to the influx of people.
What is Urbanization?
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s.
What are political machines?
Groups of people who experienced new economic opportunities after the civil war during Industrialization.
Who are Women, African Americans, and Immigrants?
Eight hour days were normalized and weekends were established.
What are the influences of mass culture?
This was made up of immigrants and ex-farmers (due to the rapid urbanization).
What is the labor force?
What are the consequences of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The use of new technology and overproduction had what type of effect on the prices of agricultural products?
What is a Decline in Prices?
President of the United States from 1870-1878.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?