Vocabulary
These types of living areas saw massive growth during the second industrial revolution
What are cities?
This is the process of moving from one country to a different one.
the belief that government action should be used to improve society
An organization that represents a specific group of workers
Unions
Name two natural resources the U.S. had in abundance during industrialization.
What is Coal, iron, oil, and steel
These are the factors that led someone to want to immigrate . . . The reasons that made them want to leave their country and the reasons that made them want to come to the United states.
Push and Pull
The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug acts were passed to help address what issue of the Progressive Era?
Food Safety
When workers cannot come to an agreement on a labor contract with management, they organize and stop working in protest
Strike
When a business controls all the levels of product creation (supplies, shipping, and distribution)
Vertical integration
A tax imposed by one country on goods imported from another country.
Tariffs
Chinese
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
Name two issues that labor union might negotiate for
Pay, vacation days, work schedules, working conditions, benefits, insurance, retirement, etc.
The wealthy were seen as corrupt and shameless villains whose unfair business practices took advantage of the unregulated market.
Robber Barons
The name of the new mode of transportation that was built/spanned the entire country.
The Transcontinental Railroad
Name two countries/ethnicities that saw major immigration to the United States during the Second Industrial Revolution
Jewish/Italian/Mexican/Chinese/Scandinavian
An organization formed in 1909 with the primary goal of pushing for a federal anti-lynching law and fighting for racial justice
NAACP
Name two modern day impacts on labor that unions created
40 hour work week, end of child labor, minimum wage, etc.
Rockefeller made millions using this business practice by buying out all the smaller business & creating one large one
horizontal integration
The government did not do this to big businesses, allowing them to use child labor, have unsafe work places, pay their workers poorly, etc.
What is regulate?
The name of the island that most European immigrants traveled through to make it to the United states
What is Ellis Island?
This amendment allows Congress to collect a direct income tax. Previously, most money for the government had been collected through tariffs.
The 16th Amendment
Samuel Gompers formed this union, that was a combination of many unions and working people
industrialists were seen as self-made men whose vision and drive encouraged the Second Industrial Revolution and the transformation of the U.S. economy.
Captains of industry