Captains of Industry
Founder of Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
European immigrants who came mainly from Northern and Central Europe before 1890. New or Old
Old immigrants
When one company controls an entire industry
Monopoly
He was the head of New York city's political machine
Boss Tweed
This Amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Alexander Graham Bell
Immigrants who came mainly from Asia and Southern and eastern Europe after 1890. New or Old
New immigrants
Tax you must pay in order to vote
Poll Tax
The name of New York city's Political Machine
Tammany Hall
The Supreme Court case that stated "Separate but Equal" was okay. It led to the Jim Crow era in the south
Plessy v. Ferguson
He invented a new way to make steel
Henry Bessemer
Immigration processing station in New York city
Ellis Island
Efforts by Southern whites to prevent blacks from voting
Disenfranchisement
Political Cartoonist who helped expose and convict Boss Tweed of corruption
Thomas Nast
The railroad that connected the East Cost to the West Cost
Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad tycoon who funded a college to be built in Nashville
Vanderbilt
the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
Nativism
African Americans who moved from the post reconstruction south to Kansas
Exodusters
Act that stated government jobs must go to people based on merit
Pendleton Civil Service Act
This Act encouraged people to move to the western part of the country by offering free land
Homestead Act
America's most prolific inventor. He had over 1000 patents.
Thomas Edison
This Act suspended Chinese immigration for ten years
Chinese Exclusion Act
become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture
Assimilate
President who was assassinated by a man who was denied a job due to patronage
James Garfield
This Act was passed to help Native Americans become responsible, land owning farmers
Dawes Act