What is the names of the immigration processing island on the east coast and the west coast
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island
100
What caused the rise of Labor Unions in the US
What is unsafe working conditions and low wages
100
Describe a Robber Barron
What is men who made huge fortunes by forming monopolies and exploting workers
100
How did Plessey v. Ferguson affect racial relations in the south
What is It made segregation legal
100
What did Alexandar Graham Bell create
What is the telephone
200
What was Thomas Edisons greatest accomplishment
What is helping make electricity more widely available
200
the AFL organized by Samuel Gompers only allowed what type of workers to join their union?
What is Skilled workers
200
Rockefeller had a monopoly in what industry?
What is Oil (standard oil company)
200
Jim Crow laws led to what?
What is segregation of public facilities by race in the south
200
What government action contribute most to the completion of a transcontinental railroad?
What is land grants and loans for railroads
300
What policy was created to stop Chinese immigration? What policy was created to regulate Japanese immigration?
What is Chinese Exclusionary Act, Gentlemens Agreement
300
Why did immigrants settle in easter industrial cities?
What is job opportunities in the factories
300
the Sherman Antitrust Act's goal was to do what?
What is break up existing monopolies and restore competition
300
Describe the south after the civil war
What is poor whites and blacks worked white-owned land as sharcroppers or tenant farmers
300
What were two causes for industrialization in the United STates?
What is Government Support for Business
Wealth of Natural Resources
Cheap Labor/New Markets (influx of immigrants)
400
How did immigrants preserve their culture once they arrived in the United States?
What is lived in Ethnic Neighboorhoods
400
What factors contributed to the rapid urban growth (name two)
What is immigration, the growth of industry, new technologies put some farmers out of business, African Americans moved north
400
Why was the Interstate Commerce Act significant?
DAILY DOUBLE= What occured in business/the economy, due to the governments Laissez Faire attitude towards business?
What is it established the principle that government could regulate the railroads and other industries
DAILY DOUBLE= Giant corporations controlled whole industries (monopolies formed)
400
What was a reason African Americans left the south and migrated to industrial cities?
What is less racial violence and more job opportunities than in the south
400
What did Trusts (industrial consolidation) reduce during industrializtion?
What is reduced competition in the economy
500
Where specifically did immigrants settle when they came to the United States? Why?
What is Cities in the Northeast, becuase of jobs
500
In The Great Strike of 1877 the federal government sided with business by doing what?
What is sending in troops to end the strike
500
Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest) was used to justify what?
What is the success of big business
500
After reconstruction, which region of the country would most likely be dominated by the Democratic Party
What is the south
500
What is a tenant farmer
What is a farmer who rented the land to farm and recieved all the profits afte the bills were paid