The Revolution
The acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries is apart of what Revolution?
What is the second industrial revolution?
Who built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets?
Who are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
Railroads enabled the second industrial revolution.
What is True?
What Historical tragedy increased safety legislation?
What is The Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
Was the spread of electricity essential to industrial and urban growth?
What is Yes!!
Who was sentenced to a month in jail for opening a clinic in Brooklyn that distributed birth-control devices to poor immigrant women?
Who is Margaret Sanger?
New immigrants at the end of the nineteenth century were welcomed and treated with respect because their labor was desperately needed in the cities.
What is False?
Who arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires?
Who are New Immigrants?
What court case sanctioned racial segregation?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Who was the Progressive president 1901-1909?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation.
What is True?
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
What is the victim's alleged sexual conduct?
When was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States?
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
What were immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland called?
Who are Birds of Passage?
Wealthy and working-class experienced economic growth equally during the second industrial revolution.
What is False?
During the Industrial Revolution, this country was the first to industrialize due to its coal resources and textile industry.
What is Great Britain?
What term describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption?
What is Fordism?
Who wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate?
Who is The Immigration Restriction League?
Most immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s settled in New York City.
What is False? they settled in the cities where they worked.
This invention by James Watt greatly improved factory efficiency by providing reliable power.
What is the steam engine?