Immigration
The Eastern entry point for European immigrants. Located between New Jersey and New York.
What is Ellis Island?
The growth of cities as people move from rural areas seeking jobs and better pay.
What is Urbanization?
This amendment to the Constitution completely banned the production, selling, and drinking of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
What is a monopoly?
This word describes right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Western point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or months to be processed.
What is the Angel Island?
These buildings were built upward. They allowed cities to have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
Created by Thomas Edison, this piece of technology allowed for factory workers to work through the night, and brought wires into homes and buildings.
What is the lightbulb?
Political reformers who supported postive change. Some examples of these changes are social welfare, child labor laws, safety codes in factories. They also helped immigrants get better jobs.
What is a Progressive?
The belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
This refers to a group of workers who would go on strike to protest for better working conditions and pay if they were treated unfairly by their employer.
What is a union?
What is the assembly line?
This is the 1896 Supreme Court case that allowed for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
These neighborhoods were created in cities like New York and Boston to provide immigrants with security, a sense of community, food, customs, and familiar language.
What are ethnic enclaves?
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed the bad working conditions in meat packing factories.
What is The Jungle?
This act awarded 160 acres of land to any settler who farmed it for 5 years. The land was often very poor and unfarmable however.
What is the Homestead Act?
This person created a monopoly in the oil industry, and was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This is the term used to describe people who exposed social problems such as poverty, discrimination, and poor working conditions.
What is a muckraker?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers and limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
During the 19th century, these workplaces shifted the workforce from rural farms into urban cities, which boosted urbanization as people sought jobs in manufacturing instead of farming.
What are factories?
This term refers to the process by which people such as Native Americans were pressured to adopt American culture, including changes in lifestyle, education, religion, and clothing.
What is assimilation?
This industrialist had a monopoly over the railroad industry, and owned over 4800 miles of track across the country.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Well organized political parties that corrupted city and state governments in the 1800s. Boss Tweed ran a famous one of these.
What are Political machines?