Vocab 1
a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast
Transcontinental Railroad
an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
literacy test
a shortage, lack, or insufficient supply
scarcity
a condition that attracts people to move to a new area
pull factor
a settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail
cow town
fire in 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City that killed nearly 150 workers
Triangle Fire
a limited area of land set aside for American Indians
reservation
a company or group having control of all or nearly all of the business of an industry
monopoly
a small apartment in a city slum building
tenement
a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
KKK
a community center organized, beginning in the late 1800s, to offer service to the poor
money, especially money collected by a government for public use
revenue
workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay
sweatshop
the rebuilding of the South after the civil war
Reconstruction
method of production in which workers stay in one place as products pass along a track or moving belt
moving assembly line
a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
sharecropper
in Eastern Europe, an organized attack on a Jewish community
pogrom
the legal separation of people based on radical, ethnic, or other differences
segregation
an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
Carpetbagger
a condition that drives people from their homeland
push factor
an 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
Plessy vs. Ferguson
the acts passed in 1862 and 1890 that provided public land for agricultural colleges
Morrill Acts
the movement of population from farms to cities
urbanization
association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions
trade union
a standard set by the government for building construction and safety