Urbanization and Industrialization
The types of people to live in the slums in cities.
Factory workers, the poor, immigrants
Laws that acted as political and social obstacles for African Americans, encouraging segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
Phenomena where mass amounts of people would move to a location.
Urbanization
Restrictions placed on voting to prevent African American from doing so.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the Grandfather Clause.
Biggest city in the US in during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
New York City
Case where the federal government permitted the "separate but equal" doctrine to apply, indifferent to the plight of African Americans.
Plessy v Ferguson
Photographer who took pictures of poor living conditions in cities to bring awareness to the issues there.
Jacob Riis
Civil rights activist who thought that a gradual approach to achieving African American equality was best.
Booker T Washington
Organizations formed as an attempt to address worker safety laws and low wages.
Worker Unions
Civil Rights activist who thought that a more aggressive approach to fighting for equality would be a better way to change things.
W. E. B. Du Bois