A Little bit of Everything
An example of a secondary source of information about industrialization
What is a textbook chapter about Andrew Carnegie
Mass production is a term that can best be defined as the
What is the manufacture of large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
One purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) was to
What is protect the jobs of American workers
The new Colossus is found on this national landmark
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Strategy used by unions where workers stop working
What is a strike
Name given to 19th century businessman who used unfair business practices
What is robber baron
Reason why immigration increased rapidly between 1895 and 1905
What is industrial growth provided factory jobs for immigrants
President Theodore Roosevelt’s policy toward trusts
What is good trusts must be controlled; bad trusts broken up
In 1892, the United States government opened Ellis Island primarily to
What is process immigrants arriving from overseas
During the late 19th century, labor union members generally believed that immigrants would
What is create a threat to their job security
Two reasons that led to industrialization are
What is, policy of open immigration, available natural resources, abundant food supply, government policies that support business
In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the
What is impact of industrialization
Antitrust laws such as the Sherman Antitrust Act were passed by Congress in an effort to
What is regulate the power of big business
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
— Emma Lazarus
What is welcome new immigrants to the United States
In the late 1800s, one reason labor unions struggled to gain support was because
What is employers could easily replace striking employees
This 19th Century baron was involved in the oil industry
What is john D. Rockefeller
In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the
What is had stockholders who invested money
Two laws created to prevent the formation of business monopolies are
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
The quota system, established as part of United States immigration policy in the 1920s, was mainly designed to
What is limit the number of immigrants from certain nations
Primary strategy used by unions to negotiate with employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions on behalf of all workers in that union.
What is collective bargaining
The federal government follows the economic principle of laissez-faire when it
What is takes no action on corporate mergers, does not pas laws to regulate business, leaves businesses alone
During the period 1840–1920, the largest number of immigrants came to the United States from these countries
What is Great Britain and Ireland
A feature that is unique to a free-enterprise economic system is
What is private ownership of the means of production
One way the “new immigrants” of the late 1800s differed from the “old immigrants” of the early 1800s was that the “new immigrants”
What is came from southern and eastern Europe, most did not speak English, were Jewish, Orthodox, or Catholic, unskilled/uneducated/illiterate in their own language, struggled to assimilate, lived in ethnic neighborhoods
In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because
What is factory jobs were available for unskilled workers