Immigration
The name of the place of where most European immigrants traveled to in order to enter the US
What is Ellis Island?
The term that describes when young children worked in dangerous or low-paying jobs
What is child labor?
The tragic New York City event where over 100 women died in a workplace fire
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The name given to successful business leaders who got rich by using shady practices and taking unfair advantage of workers
Who are robber barons?
The term used when one company dominates or has control over a certain industry
What is a monopoly?
The name of the place of where most Asian/Chinese immigrants traveled to in order to enter the US
What is Angel Island?
Describe at least two factors of what it was like working during Industrialization
- Working 6 days a week
- Extremely low wages
- Long work days as long as 14 hours
- Unsafe working conditions
- Unsanitary working conditions
This man is known as one of the richest people in history for his monopoly over the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
An organization that can form when workers come together to fight for better working conditions
What is a labor union?
The term used to describe someone who chooses to immigrate to a new country
Who is an immigrant?
The terms for the reasons that cause people to leave an area or be attracted to a new one
What are push/pull factors?
The name given to windowless, one-room apartments that were built in cities
What are tenements?
The name of the deadly strike where a bomb was thrown into a crowd and killed several people
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
The method of creating products that involves each person doing one specific task in order to make something
What is an assembly line?
The process of examining documents and asking questions to better understand them
What is sourcing?
This act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The process of people moving to cities and cities becoming more populated
What is urbanization?
This man's charitable actions while having a monopoly over the steel industry made him known as a hypocrite
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The term used to describe the government's hands-off policy during Industrialization
What is laissez-faire?
The name used to refer to people who wanted to expose the corruption that was occurring in the US during Industrialization
Who are muckrakers?
A job that influenced trade during Industrialization and drew many Chinese workers to the US
What is building the Transcontinental Railroad?
The percentage of workers who belonged to a labor union in the early 1900s
What is 4%?
The author of the book "The Jungle," which exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The form of monopoly where businesses work together to eliminate competition
What is a trust?
The name given to the violent attacks against Jewish people in Eastern Europe
What are pogroms?