West
The area where new immigrants were from.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe.
When farmers 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.
The Homestead Strike and the Coal Strike.
What are union tactics.
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.
The economic system where transactions between businesses are free of government intervention.
What is Laissez Faire
Legislation aimed at breaking up monopolies, inadvertently hurt unions.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
The traits of new immigrants.
What are uneducated, poor, non-protestant and had no democratic background.
This court case established the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Lead Tammany Hall and a political machine full of corrupt politicians. Often used patronage.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed.
This leads to less rights, as they are easily replaced.
What is the abundance of workers.
The political policy of wanting to stop immigration to the U.S. and only focus on Americans.
What is Nativism.
What organization wanted immediate equality between African Americans and whites.
What is the NAACP.
The idea of "survival of the fittest" applied to humans.
What is Social Darwinism.
This group included women, immigrants, minorities, skilled workers and unskilled workers. They often had strikes.
What is Knights of Labor.
These are some of the benefits of going west.
What are mining, ranching, farming.
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.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic philosophy.
What is the Gospel of Wealth.
Led by Samuel Gompers, members were skilled workers who proclaimed bread and butter issues.
What is the American Federation of Labor.