A | B |
Homestead Act of 1862 | gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm the land |
Public Schools | helped with assimilating immigrants |
Alexander Graham Bell | telephone |
John D. Rockefeller | oil |
Great Migration | African Americans moved to Northern cities for jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination |
Immigration prior to 1871 | northern and Western Europe |
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | excluded Chinese immigrants |
Wright Brothers | airplane |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | railroads |
Ida B. Wells | led anti-lynching crusade |
Immigration after 1871 | southern and Eastern Europe as well as Asia |
Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 | set quotas |
Henry Ford | Assembly line |
Jim Crow Laws | separation of races in public places |
Booker T. Washington | equality was through vocational education & economic success; accepted social separation |
Chinese | helped to build Transcontinental Railroad |
Rapid growth of cities | caused housing shortages & need for new public services like sewage & water systems |
Andrew Carnegie | steel |
lynching | crimes against African Americans |
W.E.B. DuBois | education was meaningless without equality; helped form NAACP |
Thomas Edison | light bulb |
J.P. Morgan | finance |
Plessy v. Ferguson | separate but equal did not violate 14th amendment |
Susan B. Anthony | woman's suffrage |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Prevents any business structure that"restrains trade" (monopolies) |
Clayton Anti-Trust Act | outlaws price-fixing; exempts unions from Sherman Act |