Immigration
This port served as the first stop for many European immigrants. Rigorous physical, health, literacy exams. Statue of Liberty.
Ellis Island
Control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices, is called
Monopoly
Because of the rapid growth of industrialization in the North people moved out of rural towns to this new area.
Urbanized Cities
In the late 1800s, farmers most often supported the views of which party?
Populist Party
This policy allowed businesses and institutions to segregate as long as the facilities provided were (blank).
Separate but Equal
"Only the strongest will survive"
Social Darwinism
The first “big business” in America, in terms of finance, labor relations, and management, was
The Railroad Industry
Due to expansion to the west, what effects did the creation of railroads cause for the Great Plains?
Movement of Native Americans and animals, and erosion of soil
Party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives—money, jobs—and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership
Political Machine
A worker who has been injured could receive assistance for medical care and loss of income.
Workers' Compensation
in 1882, the government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
When a company controls all the raw materials, processing, and transportation systems of a product.
Vertical integration
Identify 3 changes brought about by growing urbanization
department stores, streetcars, skyscrapers, suburbs
Stated that those who had a right to vote prior to 1866 - or their direct descendants - were not subject to some or all voting requirements.
Grandfather Clause
Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers.
Dawes Severalty Act
This is the effort to immerse immigrants in what some people defined as American culture and transform them into "true" Americans
Americanization
The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by
Providing land grants and loans
Identify 3 urban problems caused by the rapid growth of cities.
sanitation, corruption (political machines), tenement housing, congestion (rapid increase in population), disease, pollution, crime,
The legal codes that established segregation were called
Jim Crow Laws
Due to the corruption of the railroad companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate reasonable prices.
Interstate Commerce Act
Define "push-pull factors" and identify two of each.
push -- pressures that force immigrants out of their home countries (lack of economic opportunity, racial discrimination, shortage of land)
pull -- factors that drew immigrants to the U.S. (hope for economic opportunity, plentiful farmland, political and religious freedom)
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie earned their wealth from which two industries?
Rockefeller -- oil
Carnegie -- steel
Government rarely interferes in the free market and businesses choose how they will operate.
Laissez-faire economics
Explain "Plessy v. Ferguson" and its significance
Homer Plessy -- 1/8 black -- sits in white section of the train, arrested. Supreme Court rules against Plessy, establishes "separate but equal" clause.
By ruling against Plessy, Supreme Court upheld the practice of segregation.
This policy gave the federal government the power to prosecute and break up corporations and trusts that monopolized specific markets.
Sherman Antitrust Act