Vocabulary
A time when more things began to be made by machine
What is Industrial Revolution?
An invention that involved communicating by Morse code
What is the telegraph?
The court case where the Supreme Court ruled that separate facilities are legal as long as they are equal.
These immigrants were born in England, Ireland, and Germany.
What are "old immigrants?"
What are raw materials?
The inventor of the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
Voters had to pass this test, in which they had to read sections of the Constitution in order to vote.
What is literacy test?
These immigrants were from Italy, the Slavic states of the Balkan Peninsula, and Russia.
What are "new immigrants?"
What are Jim Crow laws?
An invention that made communication more quickly and easily than the telegraph
What is the telephone?
Voters had to pay this in order to vote. The amount was usually $1.00 or $1.50; however, the voters had to pay back money for the years they could have voted but did not.
What are poll taxes?
Immigrants left their countries because of war, poverty, and discrimination. The name of this is...
What is a push?
The separation of groups
What is segregation?
The inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This was a way for poor white people to vote. This law said that you could vote without paying a poll tax or without taking a literacy test as long as your grandfather could vote before 1870.
What is grandfather clause?
Immigrants were attracted to the United States because of economic opportunity, religious freedom, and political and social equality. This is called...
What is a pull?
Economic activity in which raw materials are processed in factories
What is industry?
The inventor of the incandescent lightbulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
To treat someone unfairly due to his/her skin color, age, or gender
What is discrimination?
What is the quota system?