Industrialization
What is industrialization?
-Factories
-More machines
- Faster Products
- more money
- Late 1800s-1900s
This was the main pull factor that drew people from rural areas to cities during the Gilded Age.
What are factory jobs?
Immigrants came from which two continents in the 1900s.
Asia and Europe
Problems in the working condtions
- unsafe
-low pay
-long hours
When a factory makes a product quickly and cheaply in large quantities
Mass Production
This type of overcrowded city housing was common for poor families.
What is a tenement?
Many Americans opposed immigration because they feared immigrants would take jobs and change culture—this belief is called what?
What is nativism?
Why was child labor so common
-pay was so low people needed another labor force
-children were cheaper to pay for a wage and could do specific jobs
These powerful business leaders were called this when they used unfair methods to gain wealth.
What are robber barons?
What are the two ports of entry for Immigrants in the 1900s?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
This New York Harbor station processed millions of immigrants entering the U.S.
What is Ellis Island?
Poor living and working conditions led to the rise of
labor unions
This oil tycoon created a monopoly known as Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This 1911 factory fire led to new safety laws and workplace reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This 1882 law banned Chinese immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Reasons why the Triangle Shirt Waist Factor Fire happened
- poor safety regulations
-no workers rights
The economic system that allowed businesses to operate with little to no government regulation.
capitalism
Ways that a monopoly hurts other businesses
- takes away jobs
-raises prices
- poor working conditions
- lack of rights in the job market
This 1917 law required immigrants to pass a reading test.
What is the Literacy Test Act?
Why do labor unions help?
- unity
- workers rights
- stand up to bosses
-fight unfair policies