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Post Civil war immig
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hope for better opportunities religious freedom escape from oppressive governments adventure | Reasons for increased immigration |
| Pittsburgh | steel industry |
| Chicago | meat packing industry |
| Reasons why cities developed | specialized industries, immigration from other countries, and movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for jobs |
| Thomas Edison | invented electric lighting and mechanical uses of electricity |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented telephone service |
| Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to .... | ....__________________________ immigrant neighobrhoods and tenements |
| Hull house | settlement houses founded by Jane Addams to help new immigrants to America |
| Political machines | gained power by attending to the needs of new immigrants (jobs, housing) |
| Chinese and Irish immigrants faced a lot of.... | ....discrimination |
| Challenges faced by cities include..... | tenements and ghettos, political corruption |
| Copper and lead were moved to .... | ...eastern factories |
| iron ore deposits were moved to .... | ...steel mills |
| finished products were moved to.... | ...national markets |
| textile industry was located in | New England |
| automobile industry was located in | Detroit |
| racial segregation .... | ....separating= the races |
| American Indians were not considered citizens until | 1924 |
| Jim Crow laws were passed to ..... | make discrimination against African Americans legal. |
| Jim Crow laws were characterized by.... | unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government |
| Booker T. Washington | He believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social seperation |
| W.E.B. DuBois | He believed in full political. civil, and social rights for African Americans |
| Negative effects of inductrialization | child labor, low wages and long hours, unsafe working conditions |
| Progressive movement reforms | improved safety conditions, reduced work hours, placed restictions on child labor |
| 19th Amendment | Women's suffrage - women gained the right to vote |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | worked for women's suffrage |
| Temperance movement | composed of groups opposed to the making and consuming of alcohol |
| 18th Amendment | prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of alchohic beverages |
| John D. Rockefeller | oil industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel industry |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Shipping and railroad industry |
| What did mechanization do for farms? | It reduced the farm labor needs and increased production |
| Industrialization provided access to consumer goods | an example of this is the mail order catalog |
| access to raw materials and energy sources.. | ...resulted in the growth the industry |