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Why did immigrants want to come to the United States?
For a new start and new opportunities.
Why did immigrants live in tenements?
Located near factories Cheap Located near factories Multiple families
What is steerage?
Riding beneath a ship’s deck in crowded conditions.
What problems did immigrants face/deal with?
Learning a new culture/language Encountering Nativists blaming their problems on immigrants
What advantage did Irish immigrants have over other immigrants?
They spoke English as their native language.
What two resources made industrialization possible?
Steel and oil.
What is industrialization?
New inventions that make life easier.
Why are political machines considered corrupt?
They committed voter fraud, took kickbacks, bribes
How can you create a monopoly using vertical integration?
By owning each step required to get a product produced, marketed, and sold.
Why would a corporation sell stock to the public?
To invest in more capital and earn more money for your company
What is urbanization?
The growth of cities.
What two inventions allowed for the development of skyscrapers?
Steel frames and the mechanized elevator.
Why did immigrants live close to the factories?
They needed to be able to walk to work.
What development allowed for the creation of suburbs?
Mass transit
What are two changes in Progressivism that gave more power to voters?
Initiative Referendum Recall 17th Amendment
What was the impact of Sherman’s March to the Sea?
African Americans free South Destroyed African Americans free Southerners mad at the North Reconstruction begins
What are Black Codes?
Laws to keep African Americans like second-class citizens or like slaves
What was the goal of the KKK?
To keep African Americans unequal Prevent them from voting Restore Southern White Pride
How was sharecropping similar to slavery?
Freedmen had to continue to pay landowners leaving them with little and constantly in dept
What law removed Northern troops from the South, officially ending Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
Who invented the Ghost Dance?
Wovoka
What is the name of the free grazing land the cowboys used on the long drive?
Open Range
Why would barbed wire be considered an enemy to the cowboys?
Farmers put it up, blocking the open range.
Why would the Homestead Act be considered a threat to Native Americans?
It encouraged farmers to come move to the Great Plains It encouraged farmers to come move to the Great Plains. The Native Americans hunting ground.
How did whites try to assimilate Native Americans?
Making children go to school Passing the Dawes Act Making children go to school Forcing them on Reservations