After Reconstruction, Transcontinental Railroad, Immigration

______came into government and wanted to set back reconstruction

• Bourbon Democrats

• Populist

• Irish

• Immigrants

What made it difficult for African Americans and people living in poverty to vote?

• Segregation

• Adding voting laws and tests

• Asking for identification

• Building the transcontinental railroad

This exempted people from the voting tests if their grandfathers had voted in a previous election.

• Dawes Act

• Immigration

• Grandfather Claus

• Jim Crow Laws

This group, made up of southern farmers, also came to power during this time.

• Irish Immigrants

• African Americans

• Chinese Immigrants

• The Populist Party

Established in the South and further segregated people by race.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Grandfather Claus

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

Irish Immigrants, African Americans, and Chinese Immigrants all helped to

• Transport Livestock

• Build the Transcontinental Railroad

• Transport Goods

• Transport Crops

This made it possible for settlers to transport goods, crops, and livestock from the west to the eastern cities.

• Grandfather Claus

• Populist Parties

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Jim Crow Laws

This company worked to build the Transcontinental Railroad from Nebraska west

• Railroad Co.

• Transcontinental Co.

• Union Pacific Railroad Co.

• Central Pacific Railroad Co.

This company worked to build the railroad from California east

• Union Pacific Railroad Co.

• Railroad Co.

• Transcontinental Co.

• Central Pacific Railroad Co.

The two railroad companies were ___ to see who could lay the most track in the shortest amount of time.

• racing

• looking

• watching

• waiting