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The regions of Europe from where immigrants in the late 19th century were from.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe.
When farmers rented pieces of land, giving half their crops to the owners in exchange for housing and land.
What is sharecropping.
This is a multi-story, cramped, small housing unit that holds multiple families.
What are tenements.
The Homestead Strike and the Coal Strike are both examples of union ______ to try to achieve their goals.
What are union tactics.
Angel and Ellis Island.
What are the islands immigrants would pass through to enter the U.S.
3 of the 5 major crops in the south.
What are cotton, tobacco, coal, rice and sugar.
The economic policy where transactions between businesses are free of government intervention.
What is Laissez Faire
Legislation aimed at breaking up monopolies, inadvertently hurt unions.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Describe 3 characteristics of the new immigrants.
What are uneducated, poor, non-protestant and no democratic background.
This court case established the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Lead Tammany Hall and a political machine full of corrupt politicians. Often used patronage.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed.
Describe three problems of urbanization.
What are fires, diseases, poor sanitation, crime, poverty, environmental degradation.
The political policy of wanting to stop immigration to the U.S. and only focus on Americans.
What is Nativism.
What organization wanted immediate equality between African Americans and whites.
What is the NAACP.
The idea of "survival of the fittest" applied to humans.
What is Social Darwinism.
This group included women, immigrants, minorities, skilled workers and unskilled workers. They often had strikes.
What is Knights of Labor.
3 Trades of the people going west.
What are mining, ranching, farming.
Corporate/industrial America welcomed immigrants because...
What is cheap and abundant labor?
He was am educator, author and adviser to the president. He believed segregation was okay.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic philosophy.
What is the Gospel of Wealth.
Led by Samuel Gompers, members were skilled workers who proclaimed bread and butter issues.
What is the American Federation of Labor.