Unit 2: Vocabulary
This person moves from their homeland, in search of a better life.
Immigrant.
Name one way immigrants were mistreated when coming to the United States.
What does Progressive mean?
To change, to move forward, to progress... etc
When there is only one seller of an item, there are no close substitutes and there is no competition, this is known as a
Monopoly.
This was the President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Industry.
This jewish woman came to the United States after her father had passed, she worked in a sweatshop and ended up in Coney Island.
Sadie Frowne
This man wrote a book, discussing the mistreatment of food inside of the Meat Packing Industry.
Upton Sinclair.
When there are a couple of sellers of an item, however they practice the same ideology of a Monopoly where they set prices, and eliminate competition, this is known as a
Trust.
This man was 1/8th black, and was removed from a train car in Louisiana due to a Louisiana State Law.
Homer Plessy
This is when one person of a culture, adapts to another culture in efforts to fit in, or blend in.
Assimilation.
This Italian man came to the United States, and after being swindled by Bartolo, opened his own shoe shining business.
Rocco Carresca
This was the name of a book, written by a famous Muckraker, in order to expose the mishandling of food in the meatpacking industry.
The Jungle.
This man created Microsoft, and was regulated by the Federal Government because it was seen as modern day Monopoly.
Bill Gates.
13 - Abolishes Slavery
14 - Citizenship
15 - Voting Rights
This person exposes injustices in society and documents them for public view and knowledge.
Muckraker.
This man came to the United States, and after having his business destroyed and tampered with, considered sending his money back home, along with going home himself.
Lee Chew
Jacob Riis, another Muckraker, took pictures and wrote stories about how Immigrants lived in these.
Tenement buildings.
Monopolies and trusts are bad for the economy/market because they can
Set Prices to whatever they feel, causing inflation
After the ruling was given for Plessy v. Ferguson, Southern States began to create these laws, to continue to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
This was the name of a person who disliked immigrants coming into the United States.
Nativist.
This act, excluded Chinese Immigrants from coming into the United States following the first wave of migration.
Chinese Exclusion Act.
146 women jumped to their deaths in the largest disaster in NYC, this was called the
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Why was Microsoft seen as a Monopoly?
Because its software can be traced to 80 percent of personal computers around the world.
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln, by shooting him in the back of the head at Fords Theatre in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth.