West
The area where the new immigrant are from.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe.
When farmers farm rented pieces of land, giving half their crops to the owners in exchange for housing and land.
What is sharecropping.
This is a multi-story, cramped, small housing unit that holds multiple families.
What are tenements.
Groups of skilled workers, unskilled workers or both, who organize to leverage their power against corporations.
What is a union?
The name at least 2 major conflicts between the Plains Indians and the U.S. government.
What are Battle of Little Big Horn, Red River War, the Sand Creek Massacre, Fetterman Massacre and Wounded Knee Massacre.
Angel and Ellis Island.
What are the islands immigrants would pass through to enter the U.S.
3 of the 5 major crops in the south.
What are cotton, tobacco, coal, rice and sugar.
This economic system were transactions between businesses are free of government intervention.
What is Laissez Faire
A national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions who broke away from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The act that permitted the assimilation of Native Tribes, this act wanted the tribes to become more "American"
What is the Dawes Act
The traits of new immigrants.
What are uneducated, poor, non-protestant and had no democratic background.
This court case lead to the writing of the Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Lead Tammany Hall and a political machine full of corrupt politicians. Often used patronage.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed.
The abundance of this led to less rights, as they are easily replaced.
What is the abundance of workers?
This gave 160 acres of land to anyone who would live on the land for at least 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act.
The political policy of wanting to stop immigration to the U.S. and only focus on Americans already here.
What is Nativism.
What organization wanted immediate equality between African Americans and whites.
What is the NAACP.
The richest man who ever lived. Used horizontal integration to build up his wealth.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
The first important national labor organization in the United States, founded in 1869
What is Knights of Labor?
Name at least two specific ways Americans went west to make money.
What are mining, ranching, farming, mail and military.
Between 1850 and 1880 this many million immigrants came over, per decade.
What is 2-3 million.
He was am educator, author and adviser to the president. He believed segregation was okay, but wanted more economic opportunities for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
What is monopoly?
A nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.
What was the Pullman Strike?