The Industrial Revolution and Monopolies
The Industrial Revolution was a shift from an agrarian economy to a what?
A Manufacturing Economy
What is Xenophobia?
Discrimination or prejudice against people from other countries.
What was the Progressive Era?
An era of intense social and political reform between 1890 and 1920, aimed at making progress toward a better society.
What is a Jim Crow Law?
Laws in the south that were based on race -- they enforced segregation and took away rights from Black people.
The assassination of which world leader started World War I?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What is a monopoly?
A monopoly is where one business has complete control of a product or service.
What are the differences between Ellis Island and Angel Island?
Ellis Island was in New York and screened people mostly from Europe, whereas Angel Island was in California and screened people mostly from Asia.
Name at least three problems that were trying to be solved during the Progressive Era.
Industrialization, Urbanization, Unemployment, Poor Working Conditions, Unsanitary Living Conditions, and Unequal Rights
What is cultural assimilation?
The process in which non-white people are forced to adopt white culture, or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of white people.
What is propaganda?
Propaganda is communication used to influence people on an issue.
Railroads, Steel, Oil, and Banking/Investing
Name three examples of forced migration.
Examples include... the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Native Americans being forced onto Reservations, Human trafficking, people displaced because of war, or natural disaster.
What was the "Temperance Movement"?
The movement to limit alcohol consumption -- prohibition.
Where did the name "Jim Crow" come from?
It came from a white performer who wore Blackface, creating a racist character that mocked Black people in order to entertain white people by playing on their bigotry and racism.
What is Imperialism?
Extending a country's power over other nations to gain more natural resources for industry & to have more customers for manufactured goods. People colonized lose political and economic freedom.
What was the main effect of people moving to cities during the industrial revolution?
Cities grew and became overcrowded, unsanitary, and polluted.
What 1882 law prevented Chinese immigrants to be able to come to the United States?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What is a muckraker?
A journalist who tried to expose corruption, unsafe and unsanitary conditions of factories.
What are two ways in which Indigenous people resisted the forced Boarding School education?
Parents refused to hand over their children, kids ran away, they secretly spoke their native languages, etc.
Name four of the Central Powers during World War I.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
Why were antitrust laws and unions so important? Explain both.
Antitrust laws regulated corporations to promote competition and prevent monopolies. Unions created safer working conditions and gave more rights to workers.
What was the difference in how European and Asian immigrants were treated and processed at Angel Island?
Asian immigrants has a much harder time. They were discriminated against and faced bans, harsh conditions, abuse, and harassment, among other things.
How did industrialization make drinking dangerous?
People were no longer working at home, and things were more dangerous in factories. Because of this, people who were drunk/drinking would often get hurt or hurt others in the factories.
What are Grandfather Clauses, and why were they created?
Grandfather laws said that a person could vote if someone related to them could vote before the end of the Civil War. They did this to rescue poor white voters who couldn't pay taxes/pass tests. This gave white people more power and allowed racist people to vote Black people out of office and take away their rights.
What is Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" Policy? Explain this in detail.
Big Stick diplomacy is the policy of carefully mediated negotiation ("speaking softly") supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military ("big stick").