Industrialization
What is a machine?
Something that helps people do work
What is urbanization?
Increase of population and growth in cities.
What is a Union?
What is Push and Pull?
Push is what makes an immigrant want to leave a place to immigrate, pull is what makes an immigrant go to that specific place to immigrate
What is an empire?
A place/people that controls other places/people
What is mass production?
When it is more efficient and profitable to make as many of a product as possible
Name three things that caused workspaces to not be ideal during this time period
Long work hours, low pay, no worker safety, no worker compensation, abusive bosses, child labor, etc
What is a Muckracker?
A type of investigative journalist that exposed the dirty secrets of big companies or corrupt government
What is the name of the act that banned ALL Chinese immigration into the USA
Chinese Exclusion Act
Which group of people took over Hawaii?
American Businessmen
What is Division of Labor
When people do specialized jobs in the workplace
When child labor was abolished, what was it replaced with?
Mandatory Public Schooling!
What is collective bargaining?
When a union and its workers bargain with their boss as one.
Why were immigrant groups generally disliked? Name 2 reasons
Being poor
Different religion/culture
Taking away local jobs
Why did we go to war with Spain?
Yellow Journalism created around the USS Maine
What are the four main parts of capitalism?
Market Forces: Supply/demand
Private property ownership
Competition
Profit Motive
What are two changes in society due to increasing urbanization?
Pollution
Overcrowding
Disease
Name at least two
Scabs
Strikebreakers
Police/military
What did immigrants waiting decisions do at Angel Island?
Carved poems into the walls
What was the argument given for controlling the Philippines?
That we had to guide them toward independence, and that they would not survive on their own.
Leland Stanford ran which industry?
Railroads!
Give an example of Consumerism affecting our culture
EG: Christmas's commercial culture with giftbuying or decorations
Why do we have labor day?
Because of the blood shed during the Pullman Strike
What immigrant group was our Southern Border patrol founded to stop from illegally immigrating?
Chinese immigrants
What was the name of the last queen of Hawaii? (Spell it correctly)
Queen Liliʻuokalani