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This rush caused a lot of people to migrate to the West (California) to search for an important mineral
What were the 2 rules to vote in the New South
1. Have to pay a toll tax to vote
2. Have to take a literacy test
Who created the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Owner of the Standard Oil Company
Rockfeller
what does assimilation mean
to "Americanize" immigrants
It was a railroad line that connected the United States from the east coast to the west coast
Transcontinental Railroad
What are the Jim Crow laws
Who created the first oil well
Edwin Drake
Owns Chase Bank
JP Morgan
what does nativism mean
extreme hatred against immigrants
provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land
Homestead Act
a system where the landlord "allows" a tenant (newly freed African Americans" to use the land in exchange for working for free on the fields
sharecropping tenant system
Who created the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Which capitalist was an immigrant from Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
What did the APA (American Protective Association) do
A popular national organization, the American Protective Association, was founded specifically to promote anti-Catholicism and other prejudices
aided in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and secured the use of that line to the government.
Pacific Railroad Act
Summarize Plessy v Ferguson
upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."
What was the name of Rockefeller's oil company
Standard Oil Company
created the first mail order catalog
Aaron Montegomery Ward
explain the chinese exclusion ACT
10 year ban on chinese immigrants from entering America
This group sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy
Farmers Alliance
what was the Grandfather Clause
which allowed those who were illiterate to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had been eligible to vote on January 1st, 1867 (when African Americans were excluded from voting)
Name 2 inventions from 2nd Industrial revolution
electricity
elevators
skyscrapers
telephone
radio
jukebox
Which business man had daddy issues
John D rockfeller
what is social darwinism
" survival of the fittest"