Unit Overview
During this time period, jobs that had previously been done manually started to be done by machines.
Industrialization
or
Industrial Revolution
Immigration to America increased during this time period due partly to increased demand for workers in these places.
Factories (or cities)
Following the Civil War, African-Americans briefly experienced a general increase in rights during this 10-ish-year time period
Reconstruction
As westward expansion continued, Native tribes were forced to relocate to these lands kept aside for them by the government.
Reservations
American factory workers faced many challenges during this time period, including this (yes, there are many possible answers)
Low wages
Child labor
Unsafe conditions
Workplace injuries
Long hours
No breaks
And more!
Prior to this time period, people lived in these areas, where the main job was agriculture.
Rural
Immigrants regularly settled in neighborhoods with other immigrants from the same country, known as these.
Ghettos
The Supreme Court gave states permission to pass and enforce Jim Crow laws with this messy court ruling.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Native children were sent to these in order to "kill the Indian, save the man"
Boarding Schools
Immediately following the Civil War, southern states passed laws restricting the free movement of African-Americans, called these, to prevent them leaving the south in large numbers.
Black Codes
During this time period, people moved by the millions to these areas, where they often worked in factories.
Urban
These types of apartments, located in cities, were usually small, cramped, unsanitary and dangerous.
Tenements
African-Americans' rights were better protected following the Civil War with the ratification of these three amendments.
13, 14, 15
Westward expansion occurred as a result of Manifest "this," the belief that the United States was chosen by God to rule over all of North America.
Manifest Destiny
In the years following this time period, African-Americans would leave the south in large numbers in a movement known as this.
Great Migration
Frustrated by their working conditions, workers began to form these organizations to negotiate with their employers as one.
Labor unions
Immigrants to America faced this, or the belief that people who were born here are superior to those who weren’t.
Nativism
African-Americans were sometimes prevented from exercising the right to vote by these three measures.
Literacy tests
Poll taxes
Grandfather clauses
This law allowed settlers to claim up to 160 acres of Native Americans' former lands for less than $20, as long as they built a house on them.
Homestead Act
Still around today, this organization, its full name given here, was founded by W.E.B. Dubois to fight in court for the rights of African-Americans
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
When cities grow larger, taller, and more populated, it is known as this process.
Urbanization
Immigrants to America faced pressure to do this, or become more like another culture (perhaps by eating PB&J sandwiches)
Assimilate
Segregation and discrimination returned to the South with this, which occurred due to the Compromise of 1877 and ended the rebuilding period in the south.
Removal of federal (northern, union) troops from the South
The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history occurred on December 20, 1890, when nearly three hundred Native Americans were killed at this massacre. (Does your leg hurt?)
Wounded Knee Massacre
Among the innovations we have learned about in this unit was this, the world's fastest, farthest flying, most impressive paper airplane ever invented.
The Sunset Cruiser