Immigration
These are the names of the reasons that might cause you to leave an area or be attracted to a new one.
Push/Pull factors
Young children working in dangerous or low paying jobs is known as
Child Labor
This man was the founder of Amazon
Jeff Bezos
When workers come together to fight for better working conditions
Labor Unions
This is when one company dominates/ has control a certain industry
Monopoly
Push: war, progroms, starvation, poverty, discrimination
Pull: job opportunities, a new life
Describe at least two factors of what it was like working during the Industrial Revolution
Answers can include
- Working 6 days a week
- Extremely low wages
-Long work days as long as 14 hours
- Unsafe working conditions
- Unsanitary working conditions
This man is known as one of the richest people in history for his monopoly over the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
This is the method of creating products that involves each people doing a specific task in order to make something
Assembly Line
The name of someone who chooses to immigrate to a new country
Migrant
The process of one group taking on the culture of another
(Ex: immigrants having to choose American names)
Assimilation
This is the name given to windowless, one-room apartments that were built in cities
Tenements
This refers to tragic event where over 100 women died in a workplace fire.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Give one positive and one negative impact of Industrialization.
Positives: new inventions, economy grew, new way to make products faster, less physical labor
Negatives: pollution, dangerous and terrible working conditions, income inequality
This refers to the process of asking questions and looking at documents to better understand them (who wrote it? why did they write it?)
Sourcing
This act prohibited (DID NOT ALLOW) Chinese laborers to enter the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
Why did Labor Unions grow during Industrialization?
This was the FIRST woman to organize a strike for the Triangle Shirtwaist Makers in 1909.
Clara Lemlich
This is the name given to successful business leaders who got rich by using shady practices taking unfair advantage of workers
Robber Barons
The process of people moving to cities and the cities growing (growth of cities)
Urbanization
Where did most immigrants move to in America (location)?
Cities
This is a method Labor Unions use to fight for better working conditions.
Strikes
This was the first strike led entirely by WOMEN in 1909.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Strike
Why did business leaders of the late 1800s form monopolies and trusts?
Answers can include:
- to increase profits/money
- to eliminate/get rid of competition
This is the name given to the violent attacks against Jewish neighborhoods
Pogroms