What is the difference between the industries of the North and the South?
Industrialized with factories in the North, rural farming in the South.
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What is a monopoly?
When a corporation or individual controls every company or group that makes a product.
100
What is assimilation?
The act of adopting the culture and way of life of another race or group.
200
How did railroads change the U.S?
It made the movement of people and goods to the West easier.
200
Where did "new immigrants" come from?
Italy, China, and Eastern Europe.
200
What is a "lessaiz-faire" economic policy?
The government leaves industry alone and doesn't get involve in the economy.
200
What do the phrases "salad bowl" and "melting pot" mean?
People mix their cultures into the American culture creating a unique American culture.
People keep their cultural identity while taking on some American cultures.
200
Why was their conflict between the U.S. and Native Americans?
U.S. wanted the resources the Native Americans possessed.
300
Where did immigrants who worked on railroads come from?
West: China
East: Ireland
300
What is a push factor? What is a pull factor?
Push - persuading immigrants to leave their country.
Pull - persuading immigrants to come to a new country.
300
Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan combined to control which industry?
Steel.
300
What does urbanization mean?
The building up of a new area when immigrants come and live there, mostly around factories.
300
Why did the U.S. attempt to "kill the Indian" from 1860-1900?
They wanted to expand West and Native Americans were in the way.
400
What was the point of the Homestead Act? What was it?
An act passed which gave land to anyone who moved West and settled there for five years, building up the land. The point was to move and expand West.
400
What is a "political machine?"
A political organization, led by a "boss," that gains enough votes to have political control of a city.
400
How did Henry Ford revolutionize the auto industry?
Assembly lines produced cars quicker and cheaper.
400
What were tenements?
Tenements were housing in cities that was constructed poorly and quickly. Mostly immigrants lived in them.
400
Describe life on a Native American reservation.
Poor farming, tight living spaces, disease, hunger, etc.
500
What did the Pacific Railway Act do?
Set up land for the Transcontinental Railroad.
500
What is the significance of Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives?"
Depicted tough lives for immigrants, showed others that this was happening.
500
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal integration?
Vertical - own all the means of production
Horizontal - own other companies that produce the same thing.
500
Explain the concept of nativism. Why did it exist?
Nativism was hatred of foreigners by many Americans. This was the case mostly because immigrants took many American jobs.
500
What was the Dawes Act? What were the real effects?
The Dawes Act set land aside to be sold to Native Americans cheaply.
In actuality, the land got sold to white people for a very low cost.