Captains of Industry
The assembly line and affordable cars
Henry Ford
First stop in New York for most immigrants
Ellis Island
Chicago
Meat packing
The telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Overcrowded urban street or district, extremely poor
Ghetto or slum
Got rich in the steel industry; gave millions of dollars to charity
Andrew Carnegie
First stop in California for most immigrants
Angel Island
Pittsburgh
Steel
The electric light bulb
Thomas Edison
a small apartment building in a city slum
Tenement
Created Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
Heavily discriminated against during the Wave of Immigration
Irish and Chinese people
Cleveland
Oil fields and refineries
The sewing machine
Elias Howe
The growth of cities; the relocation of citizens from the country to the city
Urbanization
Shipping and the railroad.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Disease, famine, harsh government, war
Push factors, or negative reasons why people chose to immigrate
Detroit
Cars, Ford Motor Co.
The assembly line
Henry Ford
A house that served as a community center and offered services to the poor and immigrants
Settlement House
Finance and banking
J.P. Morgan
Jobs, family, political freedom, religious freedom
Pull factors, or positive reasons why people chose to immigrate
New England
Textiles
The telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse
Three impacts from rapid urbanization
Crime, pollution, and overcrowding