Immigration
Who did the CoI simulation follow and what things did she experience?
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Railroad
Steel
Oil
Coal
Textiles
Define muckraking
What group was actively working to create reform?
Progressivist
List some robber barons
Rockerfeller
Carnegie
Morgan
Vanderbilt
How did settlement houses help immigrants?
English classes
Civic classes
Pre-School/After-School programs
Job training/placement
Daycare/housing assistance
English classes
Help with immigration
What led to the rise of pollution?
Steam Engine
How is Ida B Wells a muckraker?
List some progressivists we talked about.
Booker T. Washington
WEB Du Bois
Jane Addams
Ida B Wells
Compare and contrast Booker T Washington and WEB Du Bois's thoughts
Du Bois: immediate civil rights, political power, and higher ed., "Talented Tenth"
List 5 countries that immigrants came from the most
Germany, Ireland, Great Britain, Italy, China
Early: Germany
Late: Italy
Define a robber baron and a captain of industry
Robber baron: drains resources, exploits workers, eliminates competition, all about profit
Captain of industry: create jobs, philanthropy,
How is Upton Sinclair a muckraker?
He exposed what was going on in the meat packaging industry.
What types of reform did Progressivists want? NOT SPECIFIC, GENERALIZED
Moral
Political
Economic
Describe the consequences of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire
Improved workplace safety laws
Stronger labor laws
Unions
Government oversight
Explain the following about Chinese immigrants:
1. Where they came in from
2. What they mostly worked in
3. Immigration law
1. San Francisco, CA (Angel Island)
2. Railroad and mining
3. Chinese Exclusion Act
Define monopoly
Company or business has exclusive control over a particular market or industry
What was exposed about working conditions in the factories (Lena simulation)?
dangerous working conditions
low pay
little breaks
harmful tactics
Women's rights (voting/education)
Public health and safety (FDA, Housing reform)
Efforts to reduce poverty and improve education
Define eugenics
Improving genetic quality of human population through selective breeding.
Besides immigrants, who else moved to the cities?
People from rural areas
Define horizontal integration and vertical integration
Horizontal: Company merges/buys other companies to eliminate competition
Vertical: Controls multiple stages of production or supply chain (production process)
What are strikes?
Workers stop working to demand changes
List some economic reforms that progressivists advocated for
Regulating monopolies and trusts
Government regulation
Tax reform (income tax)
What is social darwinism?
strong will survive and weak will struggle and perish