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Reconstruction
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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
Name of the strike of union workers in 1886 that lead to violet outburst in Chicago and damaging the reputation of Labor Unions across the United States 
What is the Haymarket Riots?
100

A gift from the French in 1882 and was assembled in the NYC Harbor. It was one of the first American landmarks that the newly arrived immigrants encountered

What is the Statue of Liberty?

100

Which President ordered the end of Reconstruction by removing troops from the South

Who is Rutherford B Hayes?

200

Point of entry into the U.S. for most Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.

What is the Angel Island?

200
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
200

Feeling the inequalities and hardships of industrial capitalism, many workers began to support this ideology during the Gilded Age. 

What is socialism?

200
Author of the Gospel of Wealth and owner of a steel producing monopoly that made his fortunes.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

200

Also known as "Pig Laws" these restrictions on African Americans were passed by Southern States and forced many to become Sharecroppers, not be able to vote, and limited job opportunities

What are Black Codes?

300

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

300
a person who moves from an agricultural area to city.
Who are rural-to-urban migrants?
300

Name of racist/xenophobic theory that claims that wealth is accumulated by the strongest and smartest, and so the most powerful nations and people are deserving of their wealth

What is Social Darwinism

300
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
300

1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal" facilities

What is Plessy v Ferguson?

400

A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?

What is Nativism

400

Name of the inventor that is credited with creating the lightbulb and movie camera, among other things

Who is Thomas Edison?

400

This group rose to prominence after reconstruction as an organized violent hate group that targeted African Americans

What is the Ku Klux Klan
400
Cutthroat owner of the Standard Oil Monopoly

Who is Rockefeller?

400

Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”

What is the 14th Amendment?
500

The feeling of confusion or anxiety experienced by immigrants resulting from being immersed in a new culture that they didn’t understand.

What is Culture Shock?

500

Author of the book called The Jungle, it examined life of factory workers in Chicago and the horrible treatment they faced in the meat-packing industry. 

Who is Upton Sinclair?

500

Prohibited unfair monopolies and promotes competition among businesses.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

500
This inventor developed a new style of steel production that leads to the United States being a global leader in manufacturing during the Gilded Age

Who is Henry BESSEMER

500

Author, journalist, and advocate for the African-American community that showcased the horrors of Lynching to the world

Who is Ida B Wells