Main Character
The country where the main character and his family are from.
What is Lithuania?
Being forced to work 12-16 hours in terrible conditions for inadequate pay.
What are unreasonable work hours?
The belief among immigrants and foreigners that they could go to America and achieve freedom and prosperity
What is the American Dream?
This era in American history was a breakthrough in most technological and social environments
What was the American industrial revolution?
Name a crime that the main character commits
What is assault, escaping confinement, or theft?
Immigrant workers who suffered brutal conditions for minimal wages
What was worker slavery?
The people who exploit workers for financial gain during the 1900s
What are business owners/entrepreneurs/powerful figures?
This is the economic and political system that Sinclair promotes throughout his entire book
What is socialism?
The name of the main character who is a Lithuanian immigrant to America.
Who is Jurgis Rudnik?
A circumstance where keeping a job isn't a removable condition that fluctuates on a daily basis.
What is job permanence?
The main reason why immigrants came over to America in the 1900s
What was to search for opportunities/better work?
The party that x character becomes associated with in the book
Who is the Socialist Party?
The name of the wedding feast at the beginning of the book
What is a veselija?
Being trapped in a job that doesn't offer enough pay for the conditions and hours, but being unable to leave and get a new job due to a lack of higher education, which is unaffordable due to not being paid an adequate amount.
What is a cycle of poverty?
The economic/political landscape that caused corporate business owners to trap immigrant laborers in terrible conditions while maximizing their own personal profit margins, also known for seperating people based on wealth and trapping lower-class people into harmful cycles that they cannot escape.
What is capitalism?
Name three conditions that the factory workers had to go through
What is brutal treatment, no job permanence, and exploitation of workers?
The crime that a certain character commits after associating himself with a political party
What is ballot rigging/electoral fraud?
The most prominent medical conditions amongst lower-class immigrant workers in processing factories
E. coli (beef)
Trichinosis (pork)
Salmonella (poultry)
Immigrant employees being exploited to work dangerous jobs for low wages, to maximize pay for wealthy bosses.
What is the illusion of opportunity?
The historical term for the type of writer that the author was (Upton Sinclair)
What is a muckraker?