Important Terms
Rapid growth of the city
Urbanization
Complete control of a product or service
Monopoly
Bribing immigrants for votes
Political Machines
The court case that established separate but equal
Plessy V. Ferguson
law that excluded Chinese Immigrants for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
Low rise crowded apartments
Tenements
Separate companies under a single managing board
Trust
Famous political boss who ran Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
State and local laws that legalized segregation
Jim Crow laws
What issue did women face
no voting right
Political policy of supporting Native born people
Nativism
A person who organizes and operates a business
Entrepreneur
government officials giving contracts to political bosses in exchange for bribes and political support
kickback
What did the 14th amendment do
Grants citizenship and equal protection under the law
What issue did workers face
unsafe working conditions, low pay, long hours
The right to vote
Suffrage
A person who made a fortune in steel and is also known as a philanthorpist
Andrew Carnegie
group who used unfair business practices and pricing to control industry
Robber Barrons
Secret society terrorizing the black community
KKK
What issues did children face
working
Policy that says government does not interfere in business
Laissez - Faire
Industrialist who made a fortune in the oil company
John D. Rockefeller
laws that gave citizens a greater voice to overcome political corruption
recall, referendum, initiative
Reconstruction Amendments
What issues existed in the environment
Urbanization leading to santitation issues