Immigration & Urbanization
This island processed millions of immigrants entering the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
This industry was dominated by Andrew Carnegie.
What is steel?
This law attempted to assimilate Native Americans through private land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1898 war expanded American overseas influence.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These neighborhoods formed as immigrants settled among people of similar language and culture.
What are ethnic enclaves?
This business strategy involves controlling all stages of production.
What is vertical integration?
This massacre symbolized the violent suppression of Native resistance.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This Pacific archipelago (island chain) was annexed by the U.S. in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
This law restricted Chinese immigration into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This type of overcrowded housing became common in industrial cities.
What are tenements?
This labor organization focused on skilled workers and collective bargaining.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This belief justified U.S. expansion across (mainland) North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This territory resisted both Spanish and U.S. control during and after the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines?
This reformer founded Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
Explain one major push factor and one major pull factor for immigration during the late 19th century.
What is poverty/political instability pushed immigrants out while industrial jobs and democracy/freedom/liberty pulled immigrants into the U.S.?
Explain how government policies contributed to the growth of big business.
What are subsidies, land grants, railroad support, and limited regulations?
Explain one effect railroad expansion had on Native Americans.
What are increased settlement, disrupted buffalo herds, and accelerated Native displacement?
Explain one economic and one ideological cause of American imperialism.
What is the U.S. wanted new markets and many Americans believed they should spread American culture and influence?
This activist exposed lynching through investigative journalism.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
Evaluate how industrialization both encouraged immigration and contributed to anti-immigrant sentiment.
What is industrialization created jobs attracting immigrants, while overcrowding, labor competition, and cultural tensions increased nativism?
Evaluate whether industrialization improved life for most Americans during the Gilded Age. (Pros & Cons of industrialization)
What is industrialization increased opportunity and economic growth, but also created inequality, unsafe labor, and poor living conditions?
Evaluate whether federal Native American policy after the Civil War focused more on removal or assimilation.
What is policy increasingly focused on assimilation through education and land division, though removal and violence still continued?
Evaluate whether imperialism contradicted American democratic ideals.
What is imperialism contradicted self-government/self-determination because the U.S. controlled foreign peoples without their full consent?
Explain how legal and extra-legal methods worked together to maintain inequality after Reconstruction.
What is segregation laws enforced inequality legally while violence and intimidation reinforced racial hierarchy socially and politically?