Immigration and Growth of Cities
What do we call the buildings that immigrants live in?
Tenements
Illegal killing of people by gangs of violent vigilantes. Often used to intimiate African Americans.
Lynching
True or False: Robber Barons were criticized from their fights agains unions and regluations
True
What is reform mean?
To change something, usually for the better.
What is the temperance movement?
Groups who opposed the making and consuming of alcohol.
Americans moved from ____ to ____ areas for job opportunites
rural to urban
Who founded the NAACP?
The new inventions made it so that ____ workers were needed on farms and ____ were needed in the factories.
less/more
What is a Strike?
Stoppage of work
18th Amendment
What are 3 reasons for immigration to the US?
- Better oppotunities/jobs
- religious freedom
- escape oppressive (unfair) governments
What court case put "separate but equal" in place?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Assembly Line
Child Labor
low wages
Unsafe working conditions
Impact on the Environment
Monopolies
What are two efforts to solve immigrant challenges?
Settlement houses - Jane Addams
Political Machines - Boss Tweed
What document was meant to discriminate against Chinese immigrants?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What is the Great Migration?
African Americans moving from the south to the north to large cities.
Progessive Movement work place reforms
Improved safety conditions
reduced work hours
restriction on child labor
What was amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What 5 groups of immigrants were discriminated against the most?
Chinese
Irish
Jewish
Italian
Polish
What are three ways Jim Crow Law kept African Americans from voting?
Poll tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
What instudry did these men lead?
John D. Rockerfeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
Oil
steel
Railroads/shipping
Banking
What did Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Lucy Burns have in common?
They all worked for the suffrage movement
Hull House and Phyllis Wheatley YWCA