Reasons for Moving West
This was happening in the South and caused AAs to move North and West
KKK, racism, economic hardship
What material were the homes of the settlers built out of?
Sod
Which island did European immigrants come through when they arrived to the US?
This invention helped create lightweight steel
The Bessemer Process
HE was a captain of industry
Andrew Carnegie
This gave settlers 160 acres of land
The Homestead Act
This movement was created to help fight for Farmers' rights
Populist Movement
The idea that you are better than immigrants because you were born somewhere
Nativism
What are the consequences of a city that grows really fast?
filth, crime, lack of resources,
The biggest Political machine in NYC
Tammany Hall
Name one of the conditions of the Homestead Act
Build a well
Stay for 5 years
Build a road
This individual was the leader of the Populist Party
William Jennings Bryan
What you call the neighborhoods immigrants lived in in NYC
Ghettos
These were created to help fight for workers' rights
labor unions
Buying out the supply chain when creating a monopoly
Vertical Integration
What job did most settlers get when they moved out West?
Farming/agricultural
Railroad building<-- not the best answer but Ill take it
This institution took advantage of famers and set interest rates impossibly high
the bank
He compiled photos for his project "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
This labor union accepted skilled/unskilled and AA workers
The Knights of Labor
He was the Standard Oil Company tycoon
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Way to get rich after moving west
GOLD AND SILVER
The lacks of these structures allowed for dust and major wind storms in the plains
trees and mountains
This was passed by the federal government to ban/discriminate against a certain group from the U.S
Chinese Exclusion Act
This is what you call the replacement worker of a striker
a scab
This was created to end the spoils system
The Pendleton Civil Service Act