Cities
Phenomena where massive numbers of people would move to cities.
Urbanization
Upheld in the Plessy V Ferguson with the "separate but equal" doctrine
Segregation
Federal law that gave "free" land, even to single women, African Americans & immigrants.
Homestead Act
Dark and crowded multi-family apartments in urban slums.
Tenements
40,000 African Americans left the Deep South to become farmers in Kansas.
Exodusting
Main cause for Chinese Immigration
California Gold Rush
Economic policy where the government doesn't interfere with the economy, instead relying on supply/demand.
Laissez-Faire
Voting barriers faced by African Americans.
Poll Taxes/Literacy Tests
An extreme dislike for immigrants
Nativism
A sport that became more popular in the nineteenth century - people in urban areas could spend their pastime.
Baseball
A system where black families worked on white-owned land in exchange for a portion of the crops.
Sharecropping
A place where Mexican immigrants transition from their old life to their new status as immigrants to the US.
Ellis Island
Phenomena where places in the U.S. started having factories and using metal to make things mechanically advanced.
Industrialization
Something that was enacted primarily in Southern states that legalized racial segregation and marginalized African Americans.
Jim Crow Laws
American Protective Association