Problems with Immigration
What are immigrants accused of taking?
Jobs
How would you describe the living and working conditions for immigrants?
Unsafe and Unsanitary
Name given to corrupt rich businessman by the people
Robber Barrons
What the businessmen called themselves
Captains of Industry
What company today is currently being sued for acting as a monopoly?
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
Immigration Act of 1924
Give one pull factor and one push factor for immigrants migrating to America
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Dominated the Steel Industry
Andrew Carnegie
Had control of the nation's banking system
JP Morgan
Market system in which there is only one maker of a product
Monopoly
Social Darwinism
Poorly built one-room apartments that housed multiple immigrant families, unsanitary and unsafe
Tenements
Owned the Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockefeller
Had control of the nation's railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Why are monopolies bad for the consumer?
They can raise the prices
Believed America was its best when native people formed the majority of the population
Nativism
Poorly lit and unsafe building, in which immigrants worked long hours for little pay
Sweatshops
Carnegie's charity
Gospel of Wealth
Allowed steel to be produced more cheaply and efficiently
Bessemer Process
What are 2 "good" monopolies in everyone's home?
Electricity and Water
What are two religious groups that Protestants didn't want migrating to the United States?
Jewish and Catholics
146 died in a Manhattan Sweatshop in 1911, led to fire safety laws
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
George Westinghouse
What was the name of the company that John D. Rockefeller created?
Standard Oil Company
What is a business arrangement under which some companies unite into one system, eliminates competition
Trust