Politics
This mineral was the main reason people moved to California.
What is gold?
These European immigrant groups, primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe, faced intense nativist opposition during the Gilded Age.
Who are the "New Immigrants"?
This group of workers often had the lowest wages and harshest conditions, especially in textile mills and coal mines.
Who are women and children?
What statue did the French start making in 1870 that was delivered to the US in the year 1866?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Through the 1880s, where did most immigrants come from in these two areas of Europe?
What is Northern and Western Europe?
This person spread the gospel of the “New South.”
Who is Henry Grady?
This 1882 federal law was the first major restriction on immigration, targeting a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This environmental disaster caused hardship for the Great Plains farmers in the 1880s and 1890s.
What is drought?
What was the Native Americans' last effort to resist US control?
What was the Ghost Dance?
Young men contracted for unskilled labor were called this
birds of passage
What league did Booker T Washington start in 1900 to support businesses owned and operated by African Americans?
What was the National Negro Business League?
These overcrowded, poorly ventilated apartment buildings housed many working-class families in industrial cities.
What are tenements?
This political party, formed in the 1890s, represented farmers and laborers.
What is the Populist Party (People’s Party)?
What was the estimated number of miles of railroad track in the US by 1900?
What is about 185,000-200,000
What were two large ethnic/religious groups of immigrants that came to the United States?
What is Catholic and Jewish
This person created an oil monopoly in 1863
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This African American journalist launched a powerful anti-lynching campaign after her friends were murdered in Memphis.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
In 1894, this nationwide strike by railroad workers was broken by federal troops.
What is the Pullman Strike?
What was the religious movement called that happened in the 1880s and 90s?
What is the Social Gospel Movement
These immigrant groups found work in Hawaii even after the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Japanese, Korean, and Filipino
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
This reformer and photojournalist exposed urban poverty with his influential 1890 work, How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This federal act, passed in 1890, aimed to limit monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What was the policy that gave railroad companies land and money to fund the building of railroad tracks?
What is the Federal Land Grant
What was the Act passed due to the high amount of immigration from China?
Chinese Exclusion Act