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West
New Immigration
The New South
The Gilded Age
Labor Issues
100
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific two companies of what business?
What is the Transcontinental RR.
100
The area where the new immigrants are from.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe.
100
When farmers farm rented pieces of land, giving half their crops to the owners in exchange for housing and land.
What is sharecropping.
100
This is a multi-story, cramped, small housing unit that holds multiple families.
What are tenements.
100
The leader of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers
200
The name of 2 of the 3 major conflicts between the Native Americans and the U.S. government.
What are Little Big horn, the Sandcreek massacre and Wounded Knee.
200
The two islands immigrants would pass through to enter the U.S.
What are Angel & Ellis island
200
2 of the 5 major crops in the south.
What are cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar.
200
This economic system where transactions between businesses are free of government intervention.
What is Laissez Faire
200
The first labor union; they included women, immigrants, minorities, skilled workers and unskilled workers.
what is the Knights of Labor?
300
The federal act that permitted the assimilation of Native Tribes, this act wanted the tribes to become more "American"
What is the Dawes Severalty act
300
The traits of new immigrants.
What are uneducated, poor, non-protestant and had no democratic background.
300
This court case lead to the mantra "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
Lead Tammany Hall and a political machine full of corrupt politicians. Often used dishonest graft.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed.
300
These people started replacing the working class in factories
Who are the "new" immigrants
400
This gave 160 acres of land to anyone who would live on the land for at least 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act.
400
The belief that those who were already in the US were better/superior to new immigrants
What is Nativism.
400
Despite the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment; these kept African Americans oppressed in the south
What are "Black Codes"
400
a word meaning that it looks okay on the outside, but is rotten on the inside. (superficial)
What is "Gilded"
400
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
List three reasons a person/family would have moved west
Answers may vary :)
500
Passed in 1882, this limited immigration into the US
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
500
He was an educator, author and adviser to the president. He believed blacks could show they were worthy of being equal in a segregated society
Who is Booker T. Washington.
500
3 of the 5 goals of the Omaha platform
what are:Free silver, secret ballots, direct election of senators, income tax, More government oversight
500
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike