Immigration
These are the names of the reasons that might cause you to leave an area or be attracted to a new one.
What are push/pull factors?
Young children working in dangerous or low paying jobs is known as
What is child labor?
This is the name given to the time period where more inventions were being made and more factories were created
What is Industrialization?
This is the first sentence of your paragraph, where you give an ANSWER to the main question and provide 2 REASONS to support that answer
What is a thesis statement?
What is Ellis Island?
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 is the method of creating products that involves each people doing a specific task in order to make something
What is an assembly line?
This man is known as one of the richest people in history for his monopoly over the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This is the name given to windowless, one-room apartments that were built in cities
What are tenements?
When workers come together to fight for better working conditions
What is a labor union?
This transportation device transformed the country by allowing for FASTER and CHEAPER movement of goods across the country
What is the railroad?
These people wanted to expose the corruption that was occurring in America during the Industrial Revolution
Who are muckrakers?
This act prohibited (DID NOT ALLOW) Chinese laborers to enter the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is the name of the government policy that means the Government has NO CONTROL over businesses and is “hands-off”
What is “LAISSEZ-FAIRE”
This is when one company dominates/ has control a certain industry
What is a monopoly?
This refers to tragic event where over 100 women died in a workplace fire.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This is the name given to the violent attacks against Jewish neighborhoods
What are pogroms?
This is the percentage of working Americans that belonged to a labor union
This is the name given to successful business leaders who got rich by using shady practices taking unfair advantage of workers
Who are Robber Barons?
This refers to the process of asking questions and looking at documents to better understand them
What is sourcing?