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This is total control over a product in an area.
This is something that make someone want to move AWAY from them their country.
Push Factor
This is the immigration port in California for Asian Immigrants.
Angel Island.
This is the immigration port in New York for European Immigrants.
Pull Factor
What was needed to make skyscrapers
steel
Where were most native americans moved to at the end of the century?
Reservations
This was a time period in America where everything looked super nice and glamorous but actually had tons of flaws within it.
Gilded Age
Cheap housing especially for immigrants
Tenements
Why were skyscrapers so valuable in cities?
Saved space, saved money
Name of President who was assassinated due to the disadvantages of the spoils system.
James Garfield
Why were sweatshops so unsafe?
Bad ventilation
Loud machines
No safety equipment
children working etc
Why was it smarter for factories to hire children over adults?
Cheaper
What made people move out of farms
Crop unsure, weather unsure, tough work
The invention of this helped ranchers in Texas keep their cattle in their property lines
Barbed Wire.
Why is America seen as the melting pot?
All different cultures and ethnicities come into the country and "melt" into one
What are the advantages of living in a city over a farm?
Higher quality of living, better paying jobs, more entertainment
Negatives of a city.
Bad working conditions, high crime, bad living conditions
Give 2 reasons why America had pull factors
More economic opportunity
more land
Why were Asians so important for the expansion of the U.S.
built the railroads
This idea is how big businesses justified their monopolies
social Darwinism "survival of the fittest"
How does mass production improve quality of life
More clothes, products, books, which all can improve the length, quality, or education in someone's life.
List 2 new cultural ideas in America that people were doing for fun?
Circus, baseball, dancing, etc
What 2 things did unions form to accomplish?
Better pay and better working conditions or hours.
List a situation in which immigrants were mistreated.
Asian Americans and the exclusion act, moving immigrants into ghettos, etc.