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Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
100
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;
What are tenements?
100

Why were individuals like John. D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P Morgan and Vanderbelt called Robber Barrons?

What is they used ruthless business tactics against other companies and competitors and did not pay their laborers well.

100

The political bosses gave immigrants money, jobs, healthcare, etc. all in exchange for _______________

What are votes?

100

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

What is the Gilded Age?

200

This term described immigrants giving up their identities and culture to create one American identity

What is the assimilation?

200
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

Process in which a company buys out its suppliers or owns each step of production & distribution process

What is vertical integration?

200

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

What is the Homestead Act?

300

Types of factors why immigrants came to the United Staes.

What are push and pull?

300

This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

What is the Bessemer Process?

300
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
300
Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
300

This innovation helped people settle the Great Plains and opened new markets in the west

What is the transcontinental railroad?

400
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400

He made it possible for people to communicate much more effectively

Who is Bell?

400

Divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation

What is the Dawes Act?

400

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.  

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

400

This word describes the kind of economic system found in the United States.

What is capitalism?

500
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
500

Immigrants created these to carry on their own traditions and culture.

What is an ethnic enclave?

500

The name of the corrupt politician that was in charge of Tammy Hall

What is Boss Tweed?

500
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
500

When one company controls all the companies that make a certain product so they can charge whatever they want since they're the only one who sells it.

What is a monopoly?