Easy
Morgan – Banking
Vanderbilt – Railroads
Rockefeller – Oil
Carnegie - Steel
Captains Of Industry
Put temporary stop to Chinese immigration
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
Trying to fit in
w/larger group
Assimilation
Declared separate but equal constitutional
1896 Plessy v Ferguson
SCOTUS Case
18th Amendment (temperance/Prohibition)
19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)
Progressive Movement Amendments
Moved to cities for
jobs in specialized labor
Immigrants + rural ppl
Used low pay + assembly lines to keep profits high
Robber Barons
Fictional minstrel character, namesake for segregation laws
Jim Crow
Meatpacking in Chicago,
Steel in Pittsburgh
Specialized labor jobs
Offered education, food + shelter to immigrants
Hull House
Groups of workers joined together for better pay/working conditions
Unions
Illegal mob killings that usually targeted Black ppl, most prevalent in 1890s + early 1900s
Lynching
Immigrant groups that faced discrimination in US
Polish, Jewish, Irish, Chinese, Italian
Live on reservations or try to pass as Black ppl
American Indians Choices
Were corrupt by giving protection to immigrants in exchange for votes/power
Political Machines/
Organized Crime