160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.
Homestead Act
Laws to segregate African Americans and White people.
Jim Crow
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Reason people would move from Rural America to the city.
more jobs.
Immigration station at San Francisco, California
Angel Island
Railroad that connected the Continental US from the East to West Coast.
Land Mark case about an African American man who refused to give up his seat in a white cart in the state of Louisiana.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Financial Tycoon who made his money off of Steel.
Andrew Carnegie
what the houses were made out of on the Homestead Act.
Sod
Immigration station where immigrants would come through New York City.
Ellis Island
Buffalo
An overweight man who controlled Tammany Hall and the votes in New York.
new process of making steel.
Bessemer Process.
Lead an Exodus of newly freed slaves to different parts of the United States
Benjamin Pap Singleton
Reasons may include food shortage, overpopulated, or religious persecution
Push Factor.
The process that would help Native Americans become custom to American Culture.
Assimilation
The election that ended Reconstruction and Rutherford B. Hayes would win in the result that Federal Troops would be removed from the South.
Compromise of 1877.
Robber Baron who made the oil industry into a monopoly
John D. Rockefeller
President who tried to end the Spoils System
President Andrew Garfield
Americans who did not like the idea of immigrants coming to America and taking jobs.
Native
Act passed in 1887 that would give land to Native Americans as long as they lived there for 25 years.
Dawes Act
Drew the political cartoon of William Boss Tweed.
Thomas Nast
Invented the light bulb that would lead to factories being lit and a longer work day.
Thomas Edison
Act of trying to take the vote away from African Americans after they have been given the 15th Amendment.
Disenfrachisement
Agreement between Japan and Theodore Roosevelt that said as long as Japan restricted immigration, America would stop school segregation to Asian students.
Gentleman's Agreement