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Steel/Oil Industries/more.
Problems in the City
100
This is an economic system in which people are able to start and run their own businesses with little control by the government.
What is free enterprise?
100
When Abe Lincoln ran for president he wanted this type of railroad that would run across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
This is a community center where people could learn new skills. Example Jane Addams used this idea in Chicago.
What is a settlement house or more specifically the Hull House?
100
The extreme heat in this type of furnace makes it possible to melt substances such as iron ore/other metals into an integrated liquid metal.
What is a blast furnace?
100
The cities became inhabited by numerous people.
Some of the problems were hygiene, garbage on the street (eaten by pigs), death, dangers of fire, crime, gangs, and too many people living in one apartment.
What is overcrowding?
200
This is a neighborhood of Spanish-speaking people. They help one another with daily things such as finding places to live for newcomers and jobs on farms.
What is a barrio?
200
In order to pay the workers for the railroad, the steel mills, or the refineries the owners needed this. It was the money that ran their businesses. Some of them received their money from the government.
What is capital resources?
200
This is an encompassing political or societal entity formed by uniting smaller or more localized entities: such as a federal government or a union of organizations. (Groups that are made up of many related groups.)
What is federation?
200
This man made his millions from building steel mills and bought mines to supply his steel mills with coal and iron. He bought ships to carry his natural resources. The more that was made the cheaper it costs to make it.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
She worked with labor as well as other reform groups toward goals including the first juvenile-court law, tenement-house regulation, an eight-hour working day for women, factory inspection, and workers’ compensation. (Mostly noted for the Hull House in Chicago).
Who is Jane Addams?
300
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
What is a tenement?
300
This gives the workers an opportunity to be a part of the profits from the company. They could buy shares.
What is invest?
300
This is a negative feeling some people have towards others because of their race or culture.
What is prejudice?
300
Controlled most of the oil business in the U.S.
He was a high school dropout.
He set up an oil refinery in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 24.
The products that came from his business first were grease/kerosene for lamps.
When he bought out other refineries it was known as: Standard Oil Company.
Controlled most of the oil business in the U.S.
He was a high school dropout.
He set up an oil refinery in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 24.
The products that came from his business first were grease/kerosene for lamps.
Controlled most of the oil business in the U.S.
He was a high school dropout.
He set up an oil refinery in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 24.
The products that came from his business first were grease/kerosene for lamps.
WHo is John D. Rockefeller?
300
This lady was Jane Addams right-hand person's at the Hull House. The two together changed history for they taught classes in sewing, cooking, and ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
They also helped to get laws passed to regulate child labor.
Who is Ellen Gates Starr?
400
Immigrants could become U.S. Citizens through this process.
What is naturalization?
400
Shares of the business were known as:
What are stocks?
400
A group of workers who take action to improve their working conditions. They may even have to "strike" or stopped work, as a way to get a factory owner to listen to them.
What is a labor union?
400
Is the systemic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as sitting on a bus, drinking from a water fountain, etc.
What is racial segregation?
400
Became a model for other community centers. By 1900 almost 100 settlement houses had opened in the US with the standards that Starr and Addams had modeled to help women with learning sewing, English, and cooking. Plus, it was their purpose of helping women improve in their living/safety conditions. Also, they ran a kindergarten while mothers worked.
What is the Hull House?
500
In 1885 William Jenney finished building the ten-story Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago. It was the world's first tall steel frame building.
What is a skyscraper?
500
Businesses that sell shares of stocks to investors are known as:
What is a corporation?
500
This is the department of a company that fires or hires people.
What is human resources?
500
The movement of African Americans of the rural Southern United States to cities such as Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.
What is the Great Migration?
500
Streetcar or cable car that a person could ride on. It was a small wheeled and traveled on a track.
What is a trolley?