Gilded Age
Direction settlers moved from East
West
Moved group to Kansas to avoid Jim Crow laws
Benjamin Singleton and Exodusters
President elected by the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
came to the U.S. from northern and western Europe
Old Immigrants
Millionaire from Hair Care Products
Madam C.J. Walker
Law allowed settlers to move West
Homestead Act
Separate but Equal law
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Boss of New York, collected millions in bribes
Boss William Tweed
came to the U.S. from southern and eastern Europe
New Immigrants
Manufactured the Model T Ford car
Henry Ford
Transportation that made it easier to move West
Transcontinental Railroad
Wrote and spoke about lynchings and co-founded the NAACP
Ida B. Wells
Cartoonist, donkey/Democrats; elephants/Republicans
Thomas Nast
Where immigrants came to New York
Ellis Island
controlled railroad expansion
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Broke tribal loyalties and turned Indians into citizens
Dawes Act
Founded the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
President shot by disappointed office seeker
James A. Garfield
Where immigrants came to San Franciso Bay
Angel Island
established the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Changing culture to fit the majority's culture
Assimilation
1st black PhD from Harvard; co-founded NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
Designed to end the Spoils System
Pendleton Act
Factors that brought immigrants to the U.S.
Pull and Push Factors
U.S. Steel magnate
Andrew Carnegie