Industrialization
American job moved from farm jobs to what type of jobs?
Factory (Manufacturing)
Factory managers started hiring ___________ because they were easier to control
Children (Kids)
True or False: Large company CEOs typically like unions
False
The movement of people from one country to another
Immigration
True or False: Most tenements in New York and Chicago were in poor shape and had poor living conditions
True
True or False: Jim Crow was the first black senator ever elected from a Southern state
False
The word for "the richest people who ever were" - HINT: it's in video games
Tycoon
Defined as a group of workers whom are banded together for the betterment of the workers
Union
When workers refuse to work until they get a contract they like
Strike
Name 1 of the 3 areas that Ellis Island immigrants came from to move to America
1. Ireland
2. Southern Europe
3. Eastern Europe
Propaganda
The secret society formed from old slave patrols that wanted to scare African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What did Andrew Carnegie do with most of his money?
Gave it away
This is what states started providing for those injured on the job
Workers Compensation
What workers do to show approval/disapproval of an offer by management
Vote
Which specific culture of people were discriminated against because of an "Exclusion Act" passed through the US government?
Chinese
What it is called when someone takes money for some sort of preferential treatment
Bribery
The act of separating people, usually based on race
Segregation
Rockefeller engaged in predatory pricing; in turn, he had a __________ over the oil industry after smaller businesses left.
Monopoly
The term for the journalists that exposed the bad parts of American society
Muckrakers
This is where negotiations between an employer (owner) and employees (workers) happens
Bargaining Table
Reasons that people leave their native lands are called ____ ________
Push Factors
The "colorful" term for the government binding official documents to make things more difficult for underrepresented groups
Red tape
1 of the 2 ways US states prohibited African Americans right to vote
1. Poll Taxes
2. Literacy Tests
The 2 culture groups that were mostly responsible for building the Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese & Irish
The 1906 novel about working conditions in the meatpacking industry
The Jungle
When management refuses to allow workers to work until the workers sign a contract
Lockout
Asian immigrants entered through Angel Island, which was closest to what city?
San Francisco
The "handshake" deal between the US and Japan regulating immigration
Gentleman's Agreement
Term used for the purposeful killing of African Americans, usually in public settings
Lynching