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Post Civil war immig
Question | Answer |
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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 |