Gilded Age

Immigration

100

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?

200

Point of entry into the U.S. for European immigrants. 

What is the Ellis Island?

300

Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.

What is Americanization?

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?

500

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

What is nativism?

Urbanization

100

Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;

What are tenements?

200

Positive term for entrepreneurs who created many jobs during the Gilded Age

What are Captains of Industry?

300

Group of workers who demand better pay and working conditions

What are Labor Unions?

400

Negative term for entrepreneurs who exploited workers with low pay and bad working conditions

Robber Barrons

500

The growth of cities due to the influx of people?

What is Urbanization?

Social Tension

100

The right to vote..

What is suffrage?

200

Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.

What are Jim Crow laws?

300

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

Plessy v Ferguson

400

Labor unions used this practice to demand better working conditions and pay

What are strikes/protests?

500

Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

Politics & Economic

100

Law that was used to help assimilate Native Americans

What is the Dawes Act?

200

Famous political machine in New York City ran by Boss Tweed

What is Tammany Hall?

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?

400

Law that prohibits monopolies from forming?

Anti-trust laws

500

Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s

What are Political machines?

Good Luck

100

People received 160 acres of land if they settled land in the great plains

What is the Homestead Act?

200

Practice used by big industries that exploited children. Labor unions fought for an end to this.

What is child labor?

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?

400

Connected the West Coast to the East Coast 

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

500

Innovation that allowed for the creation of steel

What is the Bessemer Process?