Reconstruction Era
restricted African-American rights
Black Codes
Indians marched on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma
Indian Removal Act
U.S. Steel, built libraries and negro colleges
Andrew Carnegie
a time of prosperity after Reconstruction
the Gilded Age
Ellis Island
enforced racial segregation of public facilities
Jim Crow laws
Reservation land was divided into plots
Dawes Act
railroad industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
the wealthy who treated employees well and gave to charities
Captains of Industry
Angel Island
period when blacks were free after the Civil War
Reconstruction Era
1862 law that sold 160 acres in West to families
Homestead Act
airplanes
Orville and Wilbur Wright
the wealthy who mistreated employees and created monopolies
Robber Barons
Prohibited Chinese immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
provided aid to emancipated slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
gave jobs to supporters and family
spoils system
assembly line for cars
Henry Ford
oversaw interstate railroad procedures in 1887
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pact with Japan to end school segregation of Asians if they limit emigration
Gentlemen's Agreement
all federal troops removed from the South
Compromise of 1877
people were hired on a merit system in the federal government
Pendleton Act
Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
railroad construction company that bribed Congress
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Factors that compelled immigrants to come to the U.S.
Push and Pull Factors