Vocabulary
Someone who moves from one country to a new country, permanently.
Immigrant
She reported on racial violence, including lynching, bringing international attention to the violence.
Ida B Wells Barnett
11.7 million
What is an assembly line
A line of workers that build on a product as it moves down the line.
What did jim crow laws make legal?
segregation
An area that is very populated, has lots of tall buildings, and is a busy area.
Urban
He believed in fighting for equal rights by demanding equality and refusing to accept segregation.
W.E.B. DuBois
This is the term for one of the reasons why cities grew during the Gilded Age, it means the change from being an agricultural/farming society to being an industrial society.
Industrialization
What group of people mostly worked in the factories and were paid a very low wage?
Immigrants
What is racial segregation
separating people based on race.
An area that is less populated and has lots of farm land.
Rural
He believed in achieving equal rights through improving job skills and education. He was willing to accept some segregation.
Booker T. Washington
This is the term for when rural Americans were moving to an urban area. They were moving because of factory jobs.
Urbanization
What is a captain of industry?
A person who leads a big business, like a monopoly, but also makes a positive impact on the community.
Which court case made segregation legal by saying "separate but equal" is legal
Plessy v Ferguson
A business that dominates it's industry.
Monopoly
Both of these people had a monopoly on steel. The company was bought from one person and sold to the other.
Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan
What is the name of the island near NYC where most immigrants were evaluated and processed at during the Gilded Age?
Ellis Island
Who invented the first airplane?
The Wright Brothers
This is when a mob/group of people attack/kill someone, typically blaming them for committing a crime even though they were innocent, and then hung the person from a tree.
Lynching
A person who controls a monopoly and takes advantage of people.
Robber baron
This person had a monopoly on shipping and railroads.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What were the hazards of tenements?
Fires, trash, disease spreading, overcrowded
Who invented the electricity on a grid and the electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Provide three examples of segregation.
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