A | B |
Pittsburg | steel |
Chicago | meatpacking |
New England states | textiles |
Detroit | automobiles |
Place the Nez Perce were trying to escape to | Canada |
"My heart is sad...I will fight no more forever" | Cheif Joseph |
Rapid growth of industry led to | overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods |
Crowded lving conditions in cities led to | epidemics of typhoid, smallpox and tuberculosis |
Ghettos were created | when landlords packed as many people as possible into tenements |
In the late 1800s cities had | bad water, garbage in the streets, frequent fires |
After the Civil War a majority og the immigrants came from | southern and eastern Europe |
Settlement houses such as the Hull House | helped immigrants adjust to living in America |
The battle between the Sioux Indians and the U.S. government was called | Battle of Lttle Big Horn |
The majority of immigrants coming to America chose to live in | city neighborhoods with others from the same ethnic group |
The greatest threat to the Plains Indians way of life was the | the killing and near extinction of buffalo |
Thomas Edison | invented electric lightbulb |
One of the ways the U.S. government dealth with the Indian problem was to set aside land for them called | reservations |
As more and more immigrants came to America, some worried the immigrants | would take their jobs |
Many people in rural areas moved to the city because | machinery reduced the need for farm labor |
Jobs in the cities attracted | thousands of immigrants to America |
Alexander Graham Bell | telephone |
These people endured a lot of immigration in the mid to late 1800s | Chinese and Irish |
In 1882, the U.S. passed a law stopping immigration from | China |
Reasons immigrants came to America | Better life, religious freedom, adventure, escape from oppressive governments |
The late 1800s saw the beginning of migration (moving) from | rural to urban areas |
As homesteaders, miners and the railroads pushed west, | Indians were pushed off their land and their way of life ended |