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Immigrants
Great Migration
Industry
Inventors
City Problems
100
Asian immigrants sailed into this island at California.
What is Angel Island
100
This is the area where most African Americans moved from when going out west.
What is the Southern states.
100
This railroad connected the East coast with the West coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
This person invented the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Name two problems facing cities when many immigrants came at the turnof the century.
What are overcrowded tenements illnesses crimes fires
200
The government made the Chinese pay a special tax in order to do this.
What is pan for gold?
200
The African Americans that moved out west were called this.
What is Exodusters?
200
These two railroads came together to build the transcontinental railroad.
What are the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific?
200
This person invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Jane Addams developed a community center where people could learn new skills.
What is a settlement house?
300
The Chinese had to pay this that was much higher than American citizens.
What is a higher state tax?
300
African Americans were looking for this when they moved out west or north.
What is new jobs/life?
300
This is the final point where the East tracks and the West tracks met.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
300
This person invented the telegraph and created morse code as a translation for letters of the alphabet.
Who is Samuel Morse?
300
This person used steel frames to build skyscrapers.
Who is William Jenney?
400
Because Chinese immigrants were not citizens, they were not allowed to do this if someone cheated them or treated them unfairly.
What is sue in a state court?
400
The word Exodusters came from this word in the Bible.
What is Exodus?
400
This word means shares of a business.
What is stocks?
400
This person dominated the steel industry by selling steel at lower prices, but paid his workers low wages for working long hours.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
Addams this place in Chicago so women could bring their children to kindergarten while they worked.
What is Hull House?
500
When the United States thought too many Chinese had moved to the US, the government did this to stop them.
What is passed a law stopping all new Chinese immigrants from coming to the US.
500
This is what the move out west was known as when the African Americans migrated for a better life.
What is Great Migration?
500
Thi word means people who purchase shares in a corporation.
What are stockholders?
500
This person formed the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
Give three new inventions that utilized electricity during the late 1800s.
What are Electric Elevators, cable cars, and trolleys?