Class Questions 1
What were the names of the two immigrant processing islands in the United States?
What is a crop grown for sale?
What was the law created to disqualify African American voters by allowing the vote only to men whose fathers and grandfathers had voted before 1866 or 1867?
The Grandfather Clause
What was a tax charged on voters?
A Poll Tax
What were laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities?
Who became the 17th president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Who is the man that invented the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
What is a bridge in which the roadway is suspended by steel cables?
A Suspension Bridge
What was a community in which residents rely upon one company for jobs, housing, and buying goods?
Company Towns
What were state laws passed throughout the South to enforces racial segregation of public facilities?
Jim Crow Laws
Who was the main leader of the Knights of Labor?
Terrence V. Powderly
What is a negative term for Southern whites who supported the republican party?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 guarantee?
Civil rights for all citizens
What was the secret society formed in the South with the intention of promoting white supremacy?
The Ku Klux Klan
What is it called when one company has exclusive control over an entire industry?
A Monopoly
What is it called when a farmer allows a tenant to use land in exchange for a portion of the crops?
Sharecropping
What amendment was ratified in the year 1868?
The Fifteenth Amendment
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 ban?
Discrimination in public facilities and transportation
Who was the first president of the American Federation of Labor?
What was the 1886 labor-related protest in Chicago that ended in deadly violence?
The Haymarket Riot
What were three cons of big business?
Monopolies, low wages, poor working conditions
What year was Rutherford B. Hayes elected president?
1877
What were three pros of Big Business?
Jobs, Innovation, and Economic Growth
Social Darwinism
What were the three main tools used by labor unions to try and achieve their goals?
Collective Bargaining, Strikes, Boycotts