In the 1800's this was main product that came from distilling oil.
What is kerosene?
100
European immigrants would arrive in New York City at this immigration station.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Many immigrants lived in these multi-family urban dwellings that were often overcrowded and unsanitary.
What is tenements?
100
This was an annual fee that had to be paid in order to vote.
What is the poll tax?
200
Removing the carbon from iron produced this lighter, flexible, and more rust resistant metal.
What is steel?
200
In 1882, this piece of legislation forbade Chinese immigration to the US with the exception of tourists, students, or political ambassadors.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
Limited water supply, wood structures, and the use of kerosene, caused these to occur in many major cities across the USA in the late 1800's-early 1900's
What are fires?
200
Legal separation of white and black people in a public place
What is segregation?
300
One main use for steel was to build these large structures, that allowed cities to expand upward as well as outward.
What are skyscrapers?
300
In response to increased immigration to the US, this favoritism towards native born Americans became commonplace throughout the country
What is nativism?
300
This was a government supported program designed to assimilate new immigrants.
What is the Americanization Movement?
300
This provision said that a person could vote in an election if his father or grandfather was eligible to vote before Jan. 1, 1867
What is the grandfather clause?
400
This invention allowed manufacturers to locate there factories wherever they wanted, not just near sources of power.
What is electrical power?
400
After 1890, many European immigrants began arriving from these parts of Europe.
What is eastern and southern Europe?
400
The rapid growth of cities caused these transportation systems to be repaired and expanded quickly
What is mass transit?
400
This famous court case established the separate but equal doctrine in the US. A system of segregation that lasted into the mid-20th century.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
Inventions like the telephone and the typewriter affected office work and created new jobs these people
Who are women?
500
The journey to America was rough for the immigrants. Many stayed in overcrowded cargo holds on the ship, called ...
What is steerage?
500
In October of 1871 one of the most notorious fires in American History destroyed this Midwestern city.
What is Chicago?
500
Many Mexican Americans and African Americans were forced into this system of post Civil War slavery in the southwest.