Midterm II
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- Child Labor, Low wages, Long hours, Unsafe Working Conditions
- Negative effects of industrialization
- Challenges faced by cities in late 1800s and early 1900s
- Overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements; Political corruption
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Passed in 1882, first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S.
- Jim Crow laws
- Laws that institutionalized a system of legal segregation creating unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, work, education, and government
- John D. Rockefeller
- Captain of the oil industry
- Booker T. Washington
- An African American leader who was willing to accept social segregation, believing that African Americans would achieve equality in time through education
- Legal discrimination
- Jim Crow laws made this happen in many states
- Homestead Strike
- In 1892, 13 men were killed in a battle between striking steelworkers and strikebreakers at Carnegie's steel plant in Pittsburgh
- Great Plains
- After the Civil War this area was no longer viewed as a "treeless wasteland", but as a vast area to be settled
- Agricultural nation
- U.S. went from this to an industrial nation.
- Jane Addams
- Founder of Chicago's Hull House, a settlement house that offered a variety of services to immigrants
- Rise in Big Business
- In late 1800s, created by Transportation advances; Advertising; Lower-cost production; Captains of industry like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford
- Labor
- Industrial development in the cities increased the need for this
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- An African American leader who wanted immediate political, civil and social equality for African Americans at any cost
- Industrial nation
- U.S. was transformed to this between Civil War and World War I
- Big Business after Civil War
- Railroads, Oil, Steel
- Henry Ford
- Emerged as captain of the auto industry
- Andrew Carnegie
- Emerged as captain of the steel industry