What is immigrants from southern and eastern Europe?
100
Public transportation designed to move many people.
What is mass transit?
100
Who was Jacob Riis?
What is he became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City tenements?
100
Took place in Andrew Carnegie's steel factory in Pennsylvania, where Union members protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs.
What is Homestead strike?
100
Describe a sweatshop.
What is hot, unhealthy workplaces with very long hours?
200
Who were old immigrants?
What is immigrants from northern Europe?
200
Describe a suburb.
What is residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas that had begun springing up before the Civil War?
200
Describe a settlement house.
What is neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities?
200
Total ownership of a product or service.
What is monopoly?
200
Why was it necessary for Congress to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is in 1880 about 105,000 Chinese immigrants lived in the United States? This act banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years.
300
Describe the steerage.
What is an area below a ship's deck where steering mechanisms were located?
300
Leisure and cultural activities shared by many people.
What is mass culture?
300
The most famous settlement house of the period.
What is Hull House?
300
Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares.
What is corporations?
300
Who added a color comic to his New York World newspaper?
What is Joseph Pulitzer?
400
Describe a tenement.
What is a poorly built, overcrowded apartment building?
400
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
What is he became nationally famous for designing Central Park in New York City?
400
Who was Florence Kelley?
What is an important reformer who visited sweatshops and wrote about the problems there?
400
Held more that 1,000 patents.
What is Thomas Edison?
400
Giant retail shops.
What is department stores?
500
Why were benevolent societies formed?
What is to offer help to many immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death?
500
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
What is publisher of the New Your Journal who saw that comics helped sell newspapers so he added a color comic strip to the Journal?
500
Who was Jane Addams?
What is an important reformer who moved into a run-down building in a poor Chicago neighborhood and turned it into Hull House (the most famous settlement house of the period).
500
Describe the Bessemer Process.
What is a way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities?
500
Where was the main processing center for Mexican immigrants located?