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The President of the United States during the Civil War and passed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Edison created this item.
Light Bulb
An ideology popularized in the late 19th century claiming that only the fit will survive in society and was used as justification for the eugenics movement.
Social Darwinism
A long railroad system that connected the West to the East, stimulating trade and facilitating economic growth.
Transcontinental Railroad
This Act banned Chinese Immigration between the 1860s and 1870s.
Chinese Exclusion Act
An African American abolitionist who was a very powerful voice in the African American Civil Rights Movement in the late 19th century.
Fredrick Douglass
This item made communication more efficient than ever by allowing people to talk to each other over long distances in real time.
Telephone
A Supreme Court case that ruled state segregation laws did not violate the 14th amendment under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Many of America's 1% who were industrialists and used their power to create unethical business practices that benefited themselves such as creating monopolies, manipulating markets, and having heavy influence on federal laws.
Robber Baron
This migration pattern is seen in America after the Civil War characterized by people moving from rural to urban areas.
Urbanization
A general of the Union Army during the Civil War and later became the 18th President of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
This item made document production more efficient by making a machine that could print characters on a piece of paper by pressing the respected key.
Typewriter
Informal political groups that controlled urban government through voter fraud and patronage.
(Boss Tweed)
Urban Political Machines
This Act provided Americans with 160 acres of land in the West if they resided on that land and demonstrated improvements to the land.
Homestead Act
This Act imposed a 50 cent head tax on each immigrant arriving in the United States and included other laws that were targeted at Chinese Immigrants.
Immigration Act of 1882
An industrialist who created the moving assembly line and made automobiles more affordable to the middle class.
Henry Ford
This cleaning appliance became a common household item during the early 20th century, but was first invented in the mid 1800s and only accessible to wealthier families.
Vacuum Cleaner
Community centers that aided the poor populations by providing access to education, food, and healthcare.
Settlement Houses
This Economic system popularized in the 19th century was characterized by minimal government intervention and deregulation of industries.
Laissez-faire Economics
This Act directly targeted Chinese women immigrants.
Page Act of 1875
An African American sociologist and activist who fought for immediate political and civil rights for African Americans rather than gradual integration.
W.E.B. Dubois
Made steel production more efficient and cheaper, making it a very important role in the construction of infrastructure such as railroads and bridges.
Bessemer Process
A social reformer known for his muckraking journalism book, "The Jungle", which exposed the unsanitary conditions of the Chicago Meatpacking Industry and coincidentally led to the creation of the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Inspection Act.
Upton Sinclair
This Labor system became popular in the South after the Civil War where landowners allowed tenant farmers to work on their land and get a small share of the yield.
Sharecropping
This Act banned the importation of immigrants coming to America under a labor contract to protect native workers jobs.
Alien Contract Labor Law of 1885