This immigrant group shared common languages, religions, and appearances with the first Americans and thus were accepted easier.
Old Immigrants
100
This company,the maker of Twinkies, is in danger of closing after recent strikes by workers.
Hostess
200
"The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced" This quote is from Andrew Carnegie's book titled "____________"
The Gospel of Wealth
200
Inventor of the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
200
"Imagination without action is hallucination" Who is the author of this quote?
Thomas Edison
200
From 1860-1890, the number of factory workers increased from 900,000 to 3 million. Most of these workers were:
A.Skilled Workers
B.Unskilled Workers
C.Paid high wages
B. Unskilled Wages
200
Where does Mr. Powell work during the summer.
Grain elevator. Farmers Coop
300
This man started off shipping cargo with sailboats and eventually bought many railroads. He also has a university named after him.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
300
Many times railroads would encourage larger shippers to use their railroads by offering them this:______________
Rebates (Lower Prices)
300
Old Immigrants mainly came to American searching for ___________
Land
300
This is the name of the new James Bond film
Skyfall
400
J.P. Morgan assembled U.S. Steel when he bought out Andrew Carnegie, it formed the first this.___________
Billion Dollar Corporation
400
George Westinghouse invented this:
The air-brakes for trains
400
William Sumner was an advocate of this theory and coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"
Social Darwinism
400
What is a nativist?
A citizen born in the United States
400
A movie about this president has just been realeased.
Lincoln
500
By the middle 1880's, this man had monopolized the oil industry in the United States
John Rockefeller
500
This process directs a stream of air into a mass of molten iron, burning off impurities and it greatly lowered the price of steel.
The Bessemer Process
500
The Knights of Labor union membership fell quickly as a result of the _________________
Haymarket Riot
500
This was NOT a reason for the discrimination against New Immigrants (1865-1915)
A. Most were Catholic
B. They took factory jobs from citizens
C. They didn't assimilate
D. They were Protestant