Immigration
List a reason why immigrants might have left their homes to go to the United States?
Better opportunities/escape poverty ($), religious freedom, famine or disaster in their home country, political unrest in their home country
When a single company controls nearly all of an industry
Monopoly
A system where Black families rented land from landowners in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
What continent did most immigrants arrive to the United States from during the Gilded Age?
Europe
The name given to one that uses ruthless methods to get rich and control industries
Robber Baron
Encouraging or forcing a group to change their traditional ways and adopt the ways of another culture
Assimilation
Those that opposed immigration and believed people born in the U.S. were superior to immigrants
Nativists
Organizations of workers united to demand better conditions for employment is an example of a
Labor Union
What is the phrase associated with Plessy v.s. Ferguson
"Separate but Equal"
Immigrants coming across the Atlantic Ocean would land here to enter the United States in New York City
Ellis Island
The name given to those who investigated and exposed social problems like corruption, unsafe food and working conditions
Muckrakers
This school was created to teach Native Americans important skills, but also forced them to change their culture to better fit into the United States
Carlisle/Indian Boarding Schools/Americanization Schools
This was the port of entry for immigrants coming across the Pacific Ocean into San Francisco, California
Angel Island
The movement that tried to give more power to ordinary people especially farmers
Populism/Populist Movement
14th Amendment