Industrial Age Factors
What term means “hands-off” government policy toward business?
What is Laissez-Faire
What business did Andrew Carnegie start?
What is steel?
What two immigrant groups are most well known for working on the railroad?
Who are the Chinese & Irish?
What was the Ghost Dance movement about?
What is a spiritual movement to restore Native lands and traditions?
What was the main immigration station on the East Coast?
What is Ellis Island?
Name two natural resources the U.S. had in abundance during industrialization.
What is Coal, iron, oil, and steel
What business did John D. Rockefeller start?
What is oil?
What invention linked the nation coast to coast?
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What does Native American Assimilation mean?
What is Forcing Natives to adopt White American culture and abandon their own?
What was the main immigration station on the West Coast?
What is Angel Island?
What protected inventors from others stealing their ideas?
What is patents?
How did industrial tycoons use monopolies and trusts to control their industries?
What is buying out competitors or merged companies to dominate markets, set prices, and limit competition?
Name three inventions & innovations
What is the steamship, light bulb, elevator, car, sewing machine, photography and radio?
What act divided Native land into private plots to force assimilation?
What is the Dawes Act?
What 1882 law banned certain laborers from entering the U.S.? Include where the immigrants were from
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What replaced hand tools and small workshops during industrialization?
What is factories?
What is it called when one company owns all parts of production, from raw materials to distribution?
What is vertical integration?
What group outside of immigrants migrated to major cities for work?
What is African Americans or farmers?
What were two long-term effects of Native American boarding schools on Indigenous communities?
What is loss of language and culture, intergenerational trauma, and weakened tribal identity?
What was the difference between “Old” and “New” immigrants?
What is Old (Northern & Western Europeans) & New (Southern & Eastern Europeans)?
What were some effects of industrialization on American life? Name two
What is changes in business, economics, human settlement, family life, society and labor?
What is it called when one company buys out all its competitors?
What is horizontal integration?
What are the four factors of American Industrialization?
What is labor, raw materials, laissez-faire and patent?
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre and why did it happen?
What is U.S. troops killing 300 Lakota Sioux people as a result of the Ghost Dance Movement?
What were the Immigration Acts of 1921 & 1924 known for?
What is setting racist quotas limiting non-Northern/Western European immigrants?