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What is Urban?
Urban is a crowded nice city.
What is a melting pot?
A melting pot is when people think that immigrants should give up their old culture to be more American.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Carnegie was a robber baron who made a fortune in the steel industry.
What is a tenement?
a large, dusty, gross, and old building divided into several individual apartments.
what is a sweatshop?
a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.
What is the settlement house?
a house where immigrants came to live upon entering the U.S.
What is a salad bowl?
A salad bowl has a ton of ingredients in it. And America's cultures are the ingredients.
what is a monopoly?
A monopoly is a market situation where a single seller or producer has no direct competitors for their products or services
What is a labor union?
A labor union is a group of employees who join together to advocate for their interests and improve their working conditions.
Ellis Island vs. Angel Island
Ellis Island is located in New York with 12 million immigrants who are mostly from Europe and their industrialization process took 3-5 hours. Angel Island was located in San Francisco with 500,000 to 1 million immigrants who are mostly from China and there industrialization process took 2 weeks - 6 months.
What is industrialization?
A city that was once quiet and dusty gets turned into a place with a ton of factories.
What is a strike?
When workers refuse to work as a form of protest.
what is a slum?
an overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by poor people.
What is the quota laws?
Quota laws limit the number of people who can do a particular thing. mostly for workshops and immigrants.
What is Rural?
A small dusty countryside place.
what is xenophobia?
Xenophobia is when people are scared of immigrants taking their jobs, so they can't get one.
what was the Chinese exclusion act?
the first major federal law to restrict immigration to the United States by a specific nationality.
what is an assembly line?
a manufacturing process that uses a series of workstations to assemble a product in a direct line.
What is the progressive movement?
A movement where people were fighting for basic human equality. (Women's voting rights, breaks, fair pay).
What was the Gilded Age?
A period in the late 1800's when some people got filthy rich and other people were just the glue holding up people making there entire monopoly possible
What is an ethnic enclave?
A place where many immigrants are settling (Little Italy and Chinatown).
who was John D. Rockerfellar?
he was a robber baron who made a fortune with a monopoly in the oil industry.
What is an assimilation? x
People who want immigrants to blend in with being american.
What is a muckraker?
A muckraker is someone who writes, photographs, or journals that expose corruption and wrongdoing in society. (tenements or factories)
What was the steam engine?
a machine that uses steam to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy.