Captains of Industry
Created a near monopoly with his standard oil company
Who is John D Rockefeller?
The growth of city populations
What is urbanization?
Came to US after 1870, from Eastern and Southern Europe, rarely spoke English, often Catholic or Jewish
Who are new immigrants?
President assassinated by disgruntled office seeker Charles Giteau
Who is James Garfield?
Supreme Court case that upheld separate but equal doctrine
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Credited with thousands of patents including the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
Transportation network that allowed cities in the West. Connected East to West
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The belief that native born people are superior to immigrants
What is Nativism?
Scandal involving the building of the Transcontinental Railroad
What is Credit Mobiler?
Laws passed by Southern governments to separate and limit the rights of African Americans
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Made his fortune consolidating railroads. HINT:GO DORES!!!
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Head of NYC political machine Tammany Hall
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
Came to US before 1870, from Northern and Western Europe, often spoke English, Protestant
Who are old immigrants?
Act requiring certain government employees to pass a civil service exam
What is the Pendleton Act?
Former Tennessee slave who led the Exodusters
Who is Pap Singleton?
Developed a PROCESS for making stronger steel
Who is Henry Bessemer?
Exposed tenement living conditions of immigrants in his how the other half lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Helped immigrants better assimilate into US society at her hull house
Who is Jane Adams?
Act to try and force Native Americans to assimilate into society. Individual allotments of land instead of reservation
What is the Dawes Act?
Controversial Presidential election which led to the end of reconstruction
What is the Election of 1876?
Become first African American female millionaire developing hair products and cosmetics.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Exposed the Tweed ring in his political cartoons
Who is Thomas Nast?
From which Asian country did the US ban immigration from in the late 1800s
What is China?
Gave the federal government the right to regulate railroad rates
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Defeated Samuel Tilden in the 1876 election, pulled remaining Federal troops out of the South
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?