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What are Jim Crow laws?
To enforce segregation and discrimination
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• Overcrowded tenement apartments
• Dangerous working conditions
• Segregated ethnic neighborhoods
Who are experiencing all of these conditions in the US during the Gilded Age?
Immigrants
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What are monopolies?
When one business owns all of an industry
I.e. Nike being the only shoe company or Apple being the only phone company
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What are Political Machines?
Organizations that provided jobs and housing in excahmge for votes. Used these votes to control elections and stole American tax dollars
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Why do some farm workers leave the country and move to big cities? (Urbanization)
Because new farming technology has made them lose their jobs, go to cities to work in factories.
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Give examples of immigrant "push" factors
war, persecution, oppression, racism, no job
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During Industrialization, what was the place of employment for most immigrants entering various US industrial cities
Factories
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how did large corporations and monopolists treat their employees
They crushed their employees with low wages and high rent, which caused them to be forced to keep their job, even when their jobs were terrible and dangerous
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During the Gilded Age many immigrants supported city political bosses in exchange for...
employment opportunities.
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What does Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Telephone
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What is a strike?
refusing to work and protesting for better conditions
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What does the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
Forced Chinese Americans to never receive citizenship and stops all Chinese immigration to the US
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What is the message of this cartoon?
Monopolies are using money and power to control the government and protect their interests
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Based on this cartoon, what influence did Boss Tweed have on New York Politics?
Complete control by using a political machine to control who was elected. Used this power to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$
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What is the impact of the change seen in this image?
More people move out West because it is easier and quicker
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The act of giving political positions and favor to your friends and allies
Spoils System
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Why were immigrant and poor laborers forced to be crammed into overcrowded, tenement apartments?
They were not paid high enough wages to afford their own housing
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How did many workers respond to their working conditions during the Gilded Age? Include at least one example.
Answers may vary, but need to highlight unions and specific strikes
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What is laissez faire?
Hands off the economy
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Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
unsafe working conditions
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What is the ideal that native-born citizens should be considered more important than newly arrived immigrants
Nativism
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How were Chinese and Irish immigrants used during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
They were given the hardest, most dangerous jobs and paid the worst
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Do you believe Monopolists like Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Explain
Answers will vary, but need to cite specific evidence for the side they choose
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What is the argument of this cartoon?
Disputes between labor and the leaders of business are hurting the economy
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What are living conditions like for immigrants during industrialization?
They are living in crammed tenement apartments, with little light or space. Diseases spread quickly and they are not able to clean themselves regularly.