Industrialization & Big Business
This invention by Thomas Edison allowed factories to run for longer hours.
What is the lightbulb?
Immigrants entered mainly through these two ports of entry in the late 19th century.
What are Ellis and Angel Islands?
This milestone in transportation was completed in 1869 and led to the creation of time zones.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Jane Addams is best known for founding this settlement house in Chicago.
What is Hull House?
This battle was the first of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Trusts, and monopolies all this effect on business competition.
What is reduced competition?
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) reflected Americans’ fears of this.
What is job competition?
This incident in 1890 marked the end of major Native American resistance.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Ida B. Wells campaigned most passionately for this legal reform.
What are anti-lynching laws?
This Congressional act introduced popular sovereignty into US territories for deciding whether or not they would allow slavery, and then led to violence between opposing sides.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were often called both “Captains of Industry” and this negative label.
What is Robber Barons?
These are two ways immigrants shaped U.S. culture during the late 19th century.
What is introducing new foods, music, and traditions?
Farming innovations like barbed wire affected the Plains Indians in this way.
What is restricted migration?
The NAACP was founded in response to this Supreme Court case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War for these reasons.
What is to limit criticism and maintain Union stability?
This was how railroads contributed to the creation of a national market in the late 1800s.
What is connecting economies?
This immigrant group played a major role in building the Transcontinental Railroad on the western side.
Who are the Chinese?
The Sioux became resistant after this 1875 event.
What is the discovery of gold in the Black Hills?
Progressive reformers supported the 17th Amendment because it allowed this.
What is the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people?
This was Lincoln's vice president that took office after his assassination, and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This is how the railroads impacted steel and oil industries in the US.
What is increased demand?
Based on census data, the foreign-born population of the U.S. increased so much between 1850 and 1890 for this reason.
What is demand for factory workers?
This animal was vital to Plains Indians and their way of life.
What is buffalo? (BISON)
Restoring economic opportunity and limiting the power of big business was important to this group.
Who are progressives?
This agreement ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?