Reconstruction
Reconstruction was the time period after this war.
Civil War
The area where settlers were moving west.
The Great Plains
He invented the lightbulb.
The crowded, run-down apartments where immigrants and factory workers lived.
tenements
Boss Tweed
13th
This was the most important invention.
The transcontinental railroad
This word means using machines to do things that used to be done by hand.
mechanization
Most immigrants came from this continent.
Europe
The place that Jane Addams founded.
Hull House
This amendment gave voting rights to all male citizens.
15th Amendment
This was the name of the act that gave 160 acres of land.
The Homestead Act
Leader of the shipping and railroad industries.
The place where immigrants were processed.
Ellis Island
W.E.B. DuBois helped create this group.
NAACP
This group was founded to help former slaves start new lives.
Freemen's Bureau
This animal is the primary food source of the Great Plains Indians.
American bison
The city where the automobile industry was located.
Detroit
Immigrants from this country helped build the transcontinental railroad.
China
Prohibition
This president ended reconstruction.
President Hayes
This act led to Native Americans losing millions of acres of land and cultural devastation.
Dawes Act
This industry helped build skyscrapers, factories, and bridges.
steel
Besides the Chinese, this immigrant group faced discrimination.
suffrage