Western Expansion
US govt act that offered free land in the west to settlers who could farm it. Also gave land to railroad companies.
Homestead Act
Nickname given to segregation laws in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
John D Rockefeller
Intake facility for immigrants arriving in New York City. 70% of immigrants arrived here in the period of 1871-1921.
Ellis Island
Name for journalists who would expose the ills of industrial society in America
Muckrakers
Completion of this connected west and east coast for transportation purposes
Civil Rights advocacy group founded in part by W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells in 1909.
NAACP
First female self made millionaire in the US. Ran a hair and cosmetics company.
Madame CJ Walker
More immigrants came from which three areas in the post Civil War Era.
Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, East Asia
Groups that formed as a result of the new industrial economy. Sought better working conditions, shorter hours, and better pay for workers.
Labor Unions
Battle between American army and Native Americans that led to death of an American army and their Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Battle of Little Bighorn
Early Civil Rights leader who believed economic success and vocational education was the key to African-American success and equality in the US
Booker T Washington
Steel business magnate during the industrial era
Andrew Carnegie
Overcrowded apartment buildings where many immigrants lived in large cities
Tenements
Amendment that gave Americans the right to vote for senators, rather than having senators be chosen by state legislatures.
17th Amendment
Massacre committed by the US army that ended the "Indian Wars" in the west.
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Led an anti-lynching campaign and helped found the NAACP
Ida B Wells
Who invented the lightbulb? Additionally who helped improve it with their invention of the light bulb filament?
Thomas Edison and Lewis Lattimer
What were two of the reasons immigrants came to the United States in the period of 1871-1921?
Economic Opportunity and Religious Freedom
Railroad strike led by the ARU and Eugene Debs. Stopped the mail in the US for a time.
Industry that expands rapidly in the west post Civil War and was a pull factor for many people to move out west
Cattle Industry/Cowboys
Believed in the "Talented Tenth" as well as immediate political and social equality for African Americans
W.E.B. DuBois
Which two inventions are credited to Garrett Morgan?
Gas Mask and Traffic Light
Two laws passed by Congress that sought to limit immigration to the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act and Emergency Quota Act
Wrote a book about the unethical business practices of John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell