Reconstruction
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This group of people suffered as a result of westward expansion.
Native Americans
How was Henry Ford able to make a more affordable car?
assembly line, mass production
When immigrants struggled to become more "American," they were trying to do this.
assimilate
This was the number one cause of urbanization.
Factory jobs
This organization tried to prevent freedmen from gaining rights.
Ku Klux Klan
This law encouraged farmers to move west.
Homestead Act
This was a negative nickname for Rockefeller, Carnegie and Vanderbilt.
"Robber Barons"
This was the main reason that many immigrants came to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
jobs, industrialization
This is the name of a business that sells shares to raise money.
corporation
These amendments attempted to give freedmen more rights.
13, 14, 15
These were areas set aside for Native Americans.
reservations
These organizations try to improve workers' wages and working conditions.
labor unions
These people wanted to limit the number of "new immigrants."
This tragic event in NYC led to a push for safer factory conditions.
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
Name two reasons that many freedmen in the South were unable to exercise their right to vote.
literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause, KKK
Great Plains, midwest
What did anti-trust laws try to control?
Big businesses, trusts, monopolies
This was the main reason nativists wanted to exclude immigrants.
job competition
These organizations assisted the poor/immigrants with services.
Settlement Houses
Sharecropping
This is what happens to farmers' crop prices when there is overproduction.
Decreases
Name one group of people that would support laissez faire policies.
Big business owners
SE Europe
Jobs, land, freedom, ...
Put these events in order:
Reconstrution
Progressive Era begins
Civil War ends
Second Industrial Revolution begins
1-Civil War ends
2-Reconstruction
3-Second Industrial Revolution begins
4-Progressive Era begins