Industrialization & Urbanization Flashcards
Passed in 1882, this law prohibited Chinese workers from entering the United States for ten years and denied them American citizenship
Chinese Exclusion Act
A government or leader’s unfair, oppressive or cruel treatment to its citizens.
tyranny
The name of a statue given to America from the people of France, which was unveiled on October 28, 1886 in New York Harbor.
Liberty Enlightening the World
One who is born in (as opposed to immigrated to) a country.
Nativist
A bill (also known as the Literacy Act) which was the most extensive immigration bill that had ever been passed in the U.S. at that time.
Immigration Act of 1917
The American poet who wrote the words engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Emma Lazarus
To become part of; fit in.
Assimilate
The process of creating large quantities of similar products quickly.
mass production
A Scottish-born inventor and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
Where a series of workers in a factory work in succession to progressively assemble identical items.
assembly line
An American inventor who is credited with creating a single-wire telegraph system and the code in which to interpret the message.
Samuel Morse
The name of the first automobile invented by Henry Ford.
Model T
A company that revolutionized the way consumers could buy goods by creating a mail-order catalog.
Sears Robuck
An American inventor nicknamed “the Wizard of Menlo Park” who created the lightbulb, motion picture projector, phonograph, and many other items.
Thomas Eddison
The name of the dunes located near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers flew their glider for the first time.
Kill Devil Hills
