controversies
Factories often are ??
Crowded and dangerous
Moving to the city for ?
Economic opportunities
what were farming starting to struggle with ?
Farm prices dropping
Caused by the California gold rush and railroad boom
Chinese Immigration
Early days of industrialization African Americans largely left out
Economic Badge
who worked in the factories
Immigrants, poor women, children
who lived in tenements ?
Factory workers, immigrants and/or the poor
Federal law that gave "free" land, even to single women, African Americans, and Immigrants.
Homestead Act.
Settled in their own communities
Insular population
caused poll taxes and literacy tests
Voting barriers