Discrimination
The court case where the Supreme Court ruled that separate facilities are legal as long as they are equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
These people came into a country from another country.
What are immigrants?
A business that produces many goods
What is big business?
A reason why immigrants came to the United States
to work
to escape poverty
for religious freedom
Voters had to pass this test, in which they had to read sections of the Constitution in order to vote.
What is literacy test?
This island is where immigrants had to pass through to be checked for their health.
What is Ellis Island?
A reason that the United States wanted immigrants to come into America
What is they will work for lower wages?
A reason for the growth of cities
Immigrations
African Americans escaping discrimination
Farmers losing their farms
Voters had to pay this in order to vote. The amount was usually $1.00 or $1.50; however, the voters had to pay back money for the years they could have voted but did not.
What is poll tax?
The name of immigrants who came from England, Ireland, and Germany
Who are old immigrants?
An industry created by Andrew Carnegie
What is the steel industry?
An effect of the growth of cities
Unsanitary conditions
Bad water
Corruption of the government
Sickness
This was a way for poor white people to vote. This law said that you could vote without paying a poll tax or without taking a literacy test as long as your grandfather could vote before 1870.
What is grandfather clause?
These immigrants were from Italy, the Slavic states of the Balkan Peninsula, and Russia.
Who are new immigrants?
An industry created by John D. Rockefellar
What is the oil industry?
A term for underage workers
Child labor
To treat someone unfairly due to his/her skin color, age, or gender
What is discrimination?
One contribution that immigrants made
Foods (pizza, tacos, spaghetti, etc.)
Cigars
Big businesses
Movies/Films
The place where the majority of people lived by the 1920s
What are cities?
A reason for child labor
Can be paid less
smaller and can fit in small spaces
can be managed more easily