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New Immigration
The New South
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100
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific two companies of what business?
What is the Transcontinental RR.
100

Unlike earlier arrivals, these "new immigrants" came primarily from these two European regions.

What are Southern and Eastern Europe?

100

When farmers 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

Groups of skilled workers, unskilled workers or both that fight for labor conditions.

What is a union.

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

Angel and Ellis Island.

What are the islands immigrants would pass through to enter the U.S.

200

These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States, dominating the region after Reconstruction.

Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes

200

This economic idea where transactions between businesses are free of government intervention.

What is Laissez Faire

200

The strike that was impacted by a bomb and an anarchist 

Haymarket Square

300
The 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 Act that limited immigration for a certain group for 10 years. Was put into place in 1882.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
300

This court case led to the writing of the Jim Crow laws.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

300

Led Tammany Hall and a political machine full of corrupt politicians. Often used patronage.

Who is William "Boss" Tweed.

300
This leads to less rights, as they are easily replaced.
What is the abundance of workers.
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 political thought of wanting to stop immigration to the U.S. and only focus on Americans.

What is Nativism.

400
What organization wanted immediate equality between African Americans and whites.
What is the NAACP.
400

Some titans of the industry believed in this for the betterment of the community. 

What is Philanthropy.

400

This group included women, immigrants, minorities, skilled workers and unskilled workers. They often led strikes.

What is Knights of Labor.

500

African Americans who moved from the South to Kansas in 1879 to escape racial discrimination. 

Exodusters

500
Between 1850 and 1880 this many million immigrants came over, per decade.
What is 2-3 million.
500

He was an educator, author and adviser to the president. He believed segregation was okay in the pursuit for equality.

Who is Booker T. Washington.

500
Meaning that it looks okay on the outside, but is rotten on the inside.
What is Gilded.
500

This union leader was imprisoned after leading the American Railway Union in a boycott of Pullman cars.

Eugene V Debs