Moving West
3 reasons for wanting to move west are...
What is jobs, education, family, better opportunity, resources, and better lifestyle
The place where Native Americans were sent when they didn't assimilate to American society
What are reservations?
This is where people, mostly African Americans were hung from trees
What is lynching?
Cartoonist that exposed the corruption going on during the Gilded Age
Who is Thomas Nast?
Known for the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Known for its financial centers
What is New York City?
When people group up together based on their race, ethnicity, language, and culture
What are ethnic clusters?
This law gave 160 acres to those who wanted to move west
What is the Homestead Act?
When one's culture is stripped from them and replaced by someone else's
What is assimilation?
These were laws that segregated public spaces
What are Jim Crow laws?
When people are given jobs for supporting a candidate
What is the spoils system?
Known for creating the banking industry
Who is J.P Morgan?
Known for the meat packing industry
What is Chicago?
She was the founder of the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
It connected the east to the west
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was where Native Americans were trained to act, speak, and look like those of American culture
What are boarding schools?
These were tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting
What are disenfranchisement methods?
He was known for being a major figure of corruption in the New York political scene
Who is Boss Tweed?
Known for harnessing light
Who is Thomas Edison?
Known for the steel industry
What is Pittsburgh?
This is where Asian immigrants went to San Fransico
What is Angel Island?
Known for leading groups of African Americans out west after Reconstruction
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singelton?
This law systematically removed Native Americans off their land
What is the Dawes Act?
This court case upheld separate but equal in the Jim Crow south
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This law required federal workers to take a test to see if they are qualified for federal jobs
What is the Pendelton Act?
Known for revolutionizing the railroad industry
Who is Corneilous Vanderbilt?
Known for the printing and textile industry
What is Boston?
When people discriminate against you for not being American born
What is nativism?
They were African Americans that migrated west
Who were the Exodusters?
This is what killed off most Native Americans
What is disease?
This law pulled troops out the south and instituted Jim Crow south
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This law was created to control the railroad industry
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
She became a millionaire from hair care products
Who is Madam C.J Walker?
Known for railroad and shipping
What is San Franciso?
What forces you to leave a place and what attracts you to a new place
What are push and pull factors?