Section 1
What city experienced a great fire in 1871 that destroyed a large portion of it?
Chicago
What was the program in which a person works on a contract, but that person would often be put into more debt than they cannot pay off?
Sharecropping
Suffrage
Who created the first patent for the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Approximately what fraction/percent of U.S. packaged meats were produced in Chicago?
4/5 or 80%
By 1900, what percent of Chicago's population was immigrant or immigrant-born?
80%
What President was assassinated in 1881 and was succeeded by Chester Arthur?
James Garfield
What industrialist perfected the assembly line and started one of the largest auto companies?
Henry Ford
What became the U.S.'s first mass-produced automobile?
Model T
Why did the Middle Class start in the U.S.?
Factory owners hired a new class of managers to run the factories
Thomas Edison perfected what device for home and work usage on a widescale?
Light Bulb
What were the names of the political groups and organizations that would offer support and favors to immigrant communities in exchange for votes?
Political Machines
What was the name given to the mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North between 1910-1970?
Great Migration
Who was the only Democratic President between the years of 1877-1912?
Grover Cleveland
What University in Alabama became one of the first HBCUs in the country?
Tuskegee University
Explain what Chain Migration is.
When an immigrant encourages family and friends back in their former home country to move to the U.S., and this continues.
What political organization was run by Boss Tweed and effectively ran New York City?
Tammany Hall
What was the name for the travelling shows that popped up in cities where people could watch different entertainment acts?
Vaudeville
Who was Thomas Nast?
Journalist whose political cartoons helped bring down political organizations and people like Boss Tweed
What is the act of withholding from consuming alcohol?
Temperance
What was the name of the large monopoly-like groups that worked agreements and management between larger companies?
Trusts
What Boarding and education homes were started in Chicago by Jane Addams?
Hull House
What invention allowed people to listen to music in their homes?
Phonograph
What German car inventor first patented the automobile in 1886?
Karl Benz
What were the only two countries in Africa that were NOT colonized by a European Power?
Liberia and Ethiopia