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21 Cards in this Set
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100. Homestead Act of 1862-
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gave people land (160 acres) in order to farm for 5 years to encourage people to settle west.
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101. Why were railroads important for American expansion?
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They provided quick transport of people and goods west.
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102. Before 1871 where did most American immigrants come from?
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Western and Northern Europe (countries such as England, Sweden, Germany, and Norway).
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103. After 1871 where did most American immigrants come from?
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Eastern and Southern Europe as well as Asia (countries such as Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, China, Japan, Hungary, and Yugoslavia).
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104. What kinds of jobs did immigrants do?
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Chinese worked on railroads in the West, Slavs, Italians, and Polish immigrants worked in the coal mines in the east, and many others worked in the cloth and steel mills in New York.
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105. Ellis Island-
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where European Immigrants came from the East Coast.
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106. What was the first thing most immigrants saw upon arrival in the U.S
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They saw the Statue of Liberty.
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107. What does melting pot mean?
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Many cultures and ethnic backgrounds came together in the U.S. to form one nation.
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108. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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1882, totally stopped Chinese from coming to the U.S. altogether.
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109. What were conditions like in factories?
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Harsh conditions, dangerous, and unsanitary.
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110. What are limited liability corporations?
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Corporations that don’t give benefits for injury or sickness and will hire someone in your place upon injury, which includes firing you.
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111. What is the Bessemer process?
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Made steel less expensive by providing an efficient and faster way to create steel without as many dangers.
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112. Who invented the light bulb?
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Thomas Edison.
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113. Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell.
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114. Who invented the airplane?
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The Wright Brothers.
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115. Who invented the assembly line?
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Henry Ford.
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116. In what industry did these men make their money?
a. Andrew Carnegie- b. J.P. Morgan- c. John D. Rockefeller- d. Cornelius Vanderbilt- |
Steel industry tycoon.
Wall street banker; purchased Carnegie’s steel company. Oil industry tycoon. Railroad industry tycoon. |
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117. What is laissez-faire capitalism?
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The government left businesses alone to make a profit.
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118. What are Jim Crow laws?
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Laws forcing separation of the races in public places.
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119. Plessy vs. Ferguson-
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the Supreme Court case that ruled that “separate but equal” did not violate the 14th Amendment.
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120. What was the “Great Migration?”
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African American migration to Northern cities in search of jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination in the South.
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