Immigration
Point of entry into the U.S. for European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories.
What are tenements?
John D. Rockefeller became a billionaire after he started this company.
What is Standard Oil?
This was the first major, successful labor union in the United States.
What is the Knights of Labor?
The right to vote is called this.
What is suffrage?
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.
What is Angel Island?
The growth of cities due to the influx of people.
What is urbanization?
Upton Sinclair wrote a novel about this industry in the United States.
What is meat packing?
Samuel Gompers was the head of this major labor union.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers.
What is nativism?
Idea that newcomers should learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
What is assimilation or Americanization?
New inventions such as steel plow led many Americans to leave agriculture and move where?
What is cities or urban areas?
A negative term for business tycoons during the Gilded Age.
Who are robber barons?
Method used by labor companies to negotiate contracts for their members.
What is collective bargaining?
Someone leaving their home country due to religious persecution would be an example of this.
What is a push factor?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Form of public transportation in cities like Boston starting in 1897 that allowed many people to live further from the city center and commute to work.
What is a subway?
He wrote the Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Labor tactic in which an employer can only hire people who become members of the union.
What is a closed shop?
This location saw a major strike against Carnegie's Steel Company.
What is Homestead PA?
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a new immigrant?
In 1893 we started to do this to our water in major US cities.
What is chlorinate?
Method used to own all means of production, from resource extraction to retail sale.
What is vertical integration?
He was the president of the American Railroad Union.
Who is Eugene Debs?
A person or institution in urban areas that controlled policies, voting and economic aspects of city life.
What is a political machine?