American Diversity in the Gilded Age

By MNoyce
  • Potatoe Famine

    Potatoe Famine

    The failing of the potatoe crop caused mass immigration from Ireland
  • Adding to diversity

    Adding to diversity

    2,598,214 immagrents arrived to America
  • Darwinism

    Darwinism

    A major split occured as a new theory of creation was released
  • Adding even more to diversity

    Adding even more to diversity

    2,314,825 immigrents arive to America
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Made to lure the poorer population out into the frontier
  • California taken by the Chinese

    California taken by the Chinese

    A census taken showed that in 1880 9% of the population of California was Chinese
  • Chinese exclosion act

    Chinese exclosion act

    Put in place to keep immagration from China
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    A group that targeted immagrents in general as well as the catholic church
  • Near extincion of the Indian

    Near extincion of the Indian

    Because of "Bullet, Battles, and Bacteria" the Indian population was about 243,000
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    Washington acquiesced in social seperation for blacks