Industrialization
Robber barons (Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Carnegie) who taken over entire industries buying up competitors
What is monopoly
Factories that had no safety measure for their workers (often immigrants and children)
What is sweat shops (triangle shirt waist factory)
change of agricultural model of economy & society to an modernized/faster/ industrialized one
Industrial revolution
factors that attract or pull individual to leave their country for a better life or opportunity (economic opportunities, more jobs, better life, education)
What is a PULL factor
organizing a business by merging together rival companies.
What is a trust
Identify the problem that caused sewage in the streets and thick black smoke in the air.
What is pollution.
the growth of cities
urbanization
Person who thought of the ASSEMBLY LINE for the production of his model T
Who was Henry Ford
what forces the individual to move out of their country because of the risk they face if they stay(war, conflict, drought, famine, or oppression/discrimination).
what is a PUSH factor
This person controlled all of the steel industry.
What is Andrew Carnegie.
Children that were forced to board trains to the Midwest to get adopted or indentured by farmer families
What are the Orphan Trains
law that made trust/monopoly illegal
Sherman Antitrust Act
because of this more factories / jobs create, more immigration, more cities built, longer hours, higher literacy rates.
what is the Impact of industrialisation in the US
Describe 2 things that immigrants experienced while going through Ellis or Angel Island.
What is Pass physical examination and checking your name from the boat list
This person controlled monopoly in the oil industry.
What is John D. Rockefeller.
Children were forcibly taken and put in Boarding Schools to be "civilized"
Who are Native American children
Blending into the mainstream society, and give up one's heritage
What is assimilation
Identify 2 events that the Transcontinental Railroad led to.
What is more people settling West built by many Chinese+Irish immigrants increased trade between East+West.
Identify 3 challenges immigrants faced in the U.S.
What is getting a job, assimilating (blending) into American culture, live segregated, and suffer discrimination
The Act that offered 160 acres of land to anyone willing to settle in the West for free, provided they built a house and cultivated the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
strategy used by the US government to weaken the Amerindians of the Great Plains by depriving them of their source of food, clothing and shelter.
What is the buffalo/bison massacre
smaller cities outside of a bigger one, or existing as part of a city
suburban area