Population Growth
Most U.S. immigrants came from this continent in the late 19th/early 20th century.
Europe
The new inventions and technologies that contributed to industrial growth.
Electric lighting, telephones, radios, railroads, and assembly lines.
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion.
The name of run-down, overcrowded apartment buildings.
Tenement houses
The name of the most famous political boss who lived in New York City.
Boss Tweed
Americans moved from rural areas into these areas during the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Urban areas/cities
The positive term for one of the four powerful business owners that revolutionized industry.
Captains of Industry
A general term to describe mean and unfair beliefs and treatment of a group based on that group's race or ethnicity.
Racism
A term for very poor sections of cities.
Ghettos
A business that had complete control of one product or industry.
Monopoly
Examples of push factors that motivated immigrants to leave their home countries.
War, violence, lack of freedom, and economic issues.
Negative term for powerful business owners.
Robber Barons.
The name of the laws passed after the Reconstruction Era denying African Americans rights and freedoms.
Jim Crow
The technology that brought awareness to the living and work conditions of the poor.
Flash Photography
The term for crowded factories with unsafe working conditions.
Sweatshops
African Americans moved to cities during this movement.
The Great Migration.
He first used the assembly line.
Henry Ford.
List three immigrant groups that experienced racism and discrimination.
Chinese, Irish, Italian, Polish, and Jewish.
This man pretended to be a Bible salesman to capture pictures of child labor. He wrote, "How the Other Half Lives."
Jacob Riis
Categories of laws created to fix some of the sudden growth problems.
Pollution Laws, Sanitation Laws, Social Service Laws, Business Laws.
Two reasons for city growth.
Cultural Clusters and Job Opportunities.
The names of two famous steel and oil titans.
Some of the reasons why groups faced discrimination.
Ignorance, misinformation, competition over jobs, and conflict with immigrants' homelands
Three effects of Americans living in extreme poverty.
Child labor, early death, widespread disease, crime, and violence.
This political cartoonist exposed the corruption at Tammany Hall.
Thomas Nast