Chinese and Mexican Americans
What are immigrants accused of taking?
Jobs
What was invented by John Deere that allowed farmers to plant crops in the Midwest and Great Plains?
Steel Plow
Name of the people's party
Populist Party
Industries or factories influence a nation. People moved to cites and made more money in factories
Industrialization
What connected the east to the west?
Transcontinental Railroad
What act was made to stop Chinese from entering the U.S.?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Was used to bring water and sometimes oil out of the ground
Windmills
What was the name of William Jennings Bryan's speech?
Cross of Gold
Enabled factory work to continue after sunset
Lightbulb
What were the name of the group of African Americans that escaped the South to Kansas because of discrimination?
Exodusters
What is the name of the group of Hispanic Americans who resisted the takeover of their lands by white settlers in California?
Los Gorras Blancas or White Caps
Who was overcharging farmers?
Railroad Companies
Who was the man who ran for president under the Populist Party?
Made it possible to for individuals and businesses to communicate more efficiently and from greater distances.
Telegraph and Telephone
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Native-Born Americans who opposed immigration
Nativists
No. 1 spokesperson for the farmers
Grange Movement
What is the term for money being backed by silver and gold?
Bimetallism
Manmade waterways usually connecting major bodies of water that had been previously separated by land
Canals
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?
Hint: It was in the 1880s
1882
Who came and took farmers' homes and farms after the couldn't pay their bills?
Banks
Who won the 1896 Presidential Election?
William Mckinley
Erie Canal
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse