Quizzes
In the north, what did immigrants and African Americans have in common?
What is widespread discrimination
What group of cities became hubs for railroad lines?
What is New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati
What is a a shortage in food?
What is a famine
What invention had a way to use heat to power machines?
What is steam power
How did workers respond to challenges?
what is trade union
Steam power, the growth of railroads, a free-market economy, and mass production led to a decrease in?
What is the cost in goods
Why were African Americans denied "the ballot-box"?
What is discrimination
What is the political party that is anti catholic, and anti immigrate?
Who are the Know-Nothing Party
Why did artisans win better pay?
What are skilled workers
How did African Americans face discrimination?
What is the start new communities and had new success
Who came in response to and contributed to economic growth?
What is immigration
What two types of groups that immigrated in high numbers to the United States durning this time?
What are Irish and German
What is it called when union workers refuse to do their jobs until mangers agree to address their concerns?
What is a strike
What new invention was used to pull rail cars?
What is steam powered locomotive engine
How did people react to immigrants?
They were not a fan of immigrants because they thought they were gonna take their jobs
Why did skilled workers have more success at forming unions than other workers?
What are workers who are harder to replace
Who are people called if they were against immigration?
what are nativist
What are skilled workers called?
what are artisans
What played an important role in urban growth?
what are railroads
How did ethic minorities fare in the north?
When the first railroads were built, what problem often occurred in transferring from one railroad line to another one?
What are goods that had to be unloaded and reloaded
What were improvements for workers did trade unions demand?
what are high wages, less working hours, and safer working conditions
What is a labor reform movement?
What is trade union
What worked to strength the African Americans community?
What is the church
What changes did the age of steam power bring?
What is the harnessing of steam power transformed many aspects of life in the United States