| 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 |
| Slavs | Italians |
| 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 |
