Segregation in the South
What are jim crow laws?
What are the three reasons cities grew significantly during the Gilded Age?
industrialization, urbanization, increased immigration
John D. Rockefeller
What was the prohibition?
Time period in the U.S. when alcohol manufacturing and sales were made illegal
What does immigrant mean?
a person who moves from one country to a new country
Lynching, an act of violence against African Americans, was mostly focused in which region of the U.S.?
How many immigrants estimated moved to the US during the Gilded Age?
20 million
Who had a monopoly on steel and was a Scottish immigrant
Andrew Carnegie
What year did the U.S. government grant citizenship to Native Americans
1924
What does industrialization mean?
The transition from an agricultural society (farming) to a more technologically advanced society (factories)
What is the name of the person who publicized lynching by reporting it in newspapers?
Ida B Wells Barnett
What are some of the challenges cities faced during the Gilded Age?
fires, lack of housing, transportation, and clean water
Who had a monopoly on shipping and railroads?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What was the name of the movement that made alcohol illegal?
Temperance movement
What does monopoly mean?
a company that dominates 1 industry
What was Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois' road to equality?
Washington: Through education, job/vocational training, gradual and passive action.
DuBois: Through demanding equality, not taking no for an answer, immediate and aggressive
The Hull House was cheap and comfortable housing for European immigrants. Who opened the first Hull House?
Jane Addams
Who had a monopoly on steel, was a banker and financier, and created General Electric (GE)
JP Morgan
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th amendment
What does suffrage mean?
right to vote
Which Supreme Court case upheld segregation and said "separate but equal is legal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the act that banned immigration from China during the Gilded Age?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What are some ways that robber barons were known to take advantage of people/the government?
Pay low wages, long work hours for employees, use relaxed government regulations to their advantage
What was the name of the photograph who photographed child labor, leading to the passing of child labor laws?
Lewis Hine
What does urbanization mean?
The process of moving from non city locations to more city locations