The"New South"
Segregation laws that required segregated washrooms, drinking fountains, park benches, and other facilities in public places
What were Jim Crow Laws?
The first invention that changed the speed of communication
What is the Telegraph ?
Divided the country into 4 time zones
What was the American Railroad Association?
Where was industrial Growth more concentrated in the gilded age?
Where was the north and southwest regions?
Where did the new immigrants come from?
Where is eastern and southern Europe?
3 states that became known for the nations lumber, tobacco, and steel industries by the late 19th century
What is Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia
3 department stores that changed business and merchandising
what is Macys, Sears, and Marshalls ?
Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
What was Vertical Integration?
What percent of workers dropped out of the industrial workplace due to harsh working conditions?
What is 20%?
Why did immigrants migrate to the US?
What is overcrowding and job opportunities?
Allowed a man to vote if his grandfather had voted in elections before Reconstruction
What were Grandfather Clauses?
what two regions had abundant coal reserves and access to iron ore of minnesota's mesabi range
what is great lakes region to pennsylvania to illinois?
A group of corporations that unite in order to control and monopolize a market or industry.
What is Industrial Trust?
What were the 3 main effects of the great railroad strike of 1877?
It shut down 2/3 of the countries rail lines, 1st time the president sent federal troops to end the dispute and over 100 people died.
What ended the immigration of people from China?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The belief that Black and White southerners shared a responsibility for making their region prosper.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
What was Edison's "Invention Factory" a contribution to?
What is an important science industry that introduced new concepts of engineering and mechanics?
A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
What were the 5 tactics strikers used to defeat unions?
Lockout, Blacklist, Yellow Dog Contract, Private Guards Ad Court Junction
What were communities, that grew along transit routes leading to an urban center to escape the pollution, poverty, and crime of the city?
What are Streetcar Suburbs?
Promoted the growing of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans to escape the trap of depending solely on cotton
Who was George Washington Carver?
Where was the first "true" skyscraper built and who designed it?
Who was William le Baron Kenny and where was Chicago, Illinois?
Northern scandal in which railroad investors were stealing government money which was supposed to finance RR and investors bribed Congressmen with free shares of RR stock
What was the Credit Mobilier Affair?
What was David Ricardo's "iron law of wages"?
Raising ages would only increase the working population and cause wages to fail(endless suffering cycle).
Buildings constructed with open ventilation shafts in the center to provide windows for each room
What were Dumbbell Tenements?