Urbanization
The largest city in the US.
New York
Who was the journalist and photographer who exposed the difficult and dangerous conditions in factories?
Jacob Riis
What was the name of the Act that encouraged people to move West, promising them "free" land?
Homestead
What was the primary job African Americans could get after Reconstruction?
Sharecropping
After the California Gold Rush, where would most Chinese immigrants work?
Railroads
What was the phenomena called whereby massive numbers of people would move to the cities?
Urbanization
What was the most critical innovation for mass production, coupled with interchangeable parts to enable factories to produce a large amount of goods in a short time.
Assembly Line
Besides white men, who else qualified for the Homestead Act? Name one.
Single women, immigrants, African Americans
What were the obstacles to voting for African Americans? Name one.
Poll Tax, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses
What act banned new Chinese immigrants?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What kind of economy fostered the rapid development of the cities, as well as fueled industrialization?
Laissez Faire Capitalism
What organizations were forming at the time to attempt to address worker wages and conditions?
Labor Unions
During the era of western settlement, who did White settlers come into conflict with?
Native Americans
Those African Americans who tried to escape the poverty of sharecropping went to Kansas. They became known as the
Exodusters
What act proposed assimilating Native Americans into mainstream society?
Dawes Severalty Act
Name one of the three groups likely to live in tenements.
Factory workers, immigrants, the poor
Industrialization was fueled by invention and innovation. Who was the most important, due to his invention of the light bulb AND electrification?
Thomas Edison
What was the "push" factor that drove some African Americans to move West?
Jim Crow (or other related elements)
Author of "The Atlanta Compromise" and advocate for African Americans working their way up from the bottom of society to earn their rights.
Booker T. Washington
After this war, most people of Mexican descent chose to stay in the US.
Mexican-American War
Why did most people move to the city? What were they looking for?
Economic Opportunities [or] Jobs
Americans became obsessed with this, noting how quickly things were changing for what they thought was "the better."
Progress
Western settlement would have what impact on agricultural (food) prices?
Lowered/Went Down
The "separate but equal doctrine" was established in this Supreme Court case.
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the "pull" factor drawing more Mexican immigration?
Jobs [or] Economic Opportunity