Jim Crow Era
The illegal killing of people by gangs of violent vigilantes. Happened mostly to African Americans in the South.
Lynching
When coming into the U.S. immigrants had to be checked in at this place in the New York City area
Ellis Island
Another name for cheap apartment buildings during that poor immigrants lived in during Urbanization
tenements
What was the major reason for industrial growth in the 1800s?
Technological advances
Who founded the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Samuel Gompers
The name of the test that needed to be passed in order to vote in the South.
Literacy Test
In the early 1860s, Chinese immigrants came to the United States to.....
To work on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Name one negative effect of factories in the cities
Coal smoke in the air, Sewage
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
In the late 19th century, the major argument used by labor union leaders against immigration was that immigrants did this........
were willing to work for low wages.
The Supreme Court ruled that Jim Crow laws were legal, as long as they were ‘Separate but Equal’.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Homestead Act of 1862 helped the development of the West by promising this to settlers, including new immigrants.
Free land
Name a major disease that spread during Urbanization
Cholera, Tuberculosis
What is the name of the process in which iron is turned into steel?
Bessimer
The name of the strike called by Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union
Pullman Strike of 1894
Early Civil Rights leader who believed education was meaningless without equality
Booker T. Washington
The Melting Pot
What tends to weaken in urban (city) areas?
Traditional values, cultures
Who was the industrial leader of the railroads?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What was significant about the National Labor Union of 1866
It was the first national labor union in America.
Its when African Americans began moving to northern cities in search of jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination in the South
The Great Migration
This is opposition to immigrants and those who are not born in the U.S
Nativism
How long did it generally take a Cowboy to finish a cattle drive?
3 months
The name of the government’s “hands off” approach to the economy, where there was little governmental interference
Laissez faire
What was significant about the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters and Maids Union of 1925?
It was the first Union led by African Americans.