This bingo card has a free space and 24 words: Homestead Act → Law that gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who improved it, Settlement of the West → Mass movement of people into western lands after the Civil War, •Exodusters → African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas after Reconstruction, Plessy v. Ferguson → Supreme Court decision that upheld “separate but equal” segregation, James A. Garfield’s assassination → led to civil service reform after a president was shot, Assimilation process Ways “new” immigrants adapted (or were pressured to adapt) to American culture, Pendleton Act → Law that created a merit-based system for federal jobs, Jim Crow laws → State laws that enforced racial segregation in the South, Thomas Nast → Cartoonist whose drawings helped expose Boss Tweed’s corruption, Rural-to-urban migration → Movement of people from farms to cities for industrial jobs, Nikola Tesla → Inventor known for work with alternating current electricity, John D. Rockefeller → Oil industry tycoon who built Standard Oil, Boarding schools → Schools that took Native children from their families to teach them white culture, •Madam C.J. Walker → African American entrepreneur who built a successful hair-care business, Push and pull factors → Reasons that drove people from their homelands and attracted them to America, Ellis Island → East Coast immigration station that processed European immigrants, Assimilation → Effort to make American Indians adopt white American culture and ways, •Ethnic clusters → Neighborhoods where immigrants from the same country lived together, Interstate Commerce Act → First federal law to regulate railroad rates and practices, Farmers vs. industrial capitalists' conflict between rural producers and big-business owners, •Andrew Carnegie → Steel industry leader who practiced vertical integration, Boss Tweed → Corrupt leader of New York City’s Tammany Hall political machine, Chinese Exclusion Act → Law that banned most Chinese immigration and Disenfranchisement methods → Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses that blocked Black voting.
Social Issues of the Gilded Age | Immigration Policies, Groups, Movements | Civil Rights Vocab Bingo | Civil Rights | 3rd 9 Weeks Benchmark Bingo
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