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This allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it, improving it and paying a $10 filing fee.
Homestead Act of 1862
African American inventor whose inventions included the traffic light and the gas mask.
Garrett Morgan
American entrepreneur who developed hair products especially for black women and built the most successful company owned by an African American at that time.
Madame C.J. Walker
A government legislation that limited the number of immigrants from Europe which was set at 3% of the nationality currently in the U.S.
Emergency Quota Act
African American civil rights leader who believed in vocational education and that segregation would end eventually in the U.S.
Booker T. Washington
American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb.
Thomas Edison
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. His company dominated the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy.
Ellis Island
Political groups that provided services to immigrants in exchange for support.
Political Machines
African American Civil Rights leader who opposed Booker T. Washington. He wanted immediate political equality.
W.E.B. DuBois
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Established the Standard Oil Company and eventually controlled 90% of the American oil industry.
John D. Rockefeller
A large statue symbolizing hope and freedom on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
Statue of Liberty
Why did immigrants come to the United states in large numbers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
They were looking for work and better opportunities.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Invented the airplane
Wright Brothers
United States industrialist who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
A law in 1882 that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A Supreme Court decision in 1896 which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
United States Supreme Court ruling in 1927 that upheld a statute instituting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the mentally retarded, "for the protection and health of the state."
Buck v. Bell
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered assembly line production.
Henry Ford
A banker who took control and consolidated bankrupt railroads in the Panic of 1893. He purchased of Carnegie Steel, which became U.S. Steel.
J. P. Morgan
American culture is a blend of many different cultures.
Melting Pot Theory
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching and supported the women's suffrage movement.
Ida B. Wells
The movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.
Great Migration