Good or Greed?
A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry.
What is a monopoly?
The East Coast immigration center where mostly Europeans entered
What is Ellis Island?
This term represents how leaders used bribes and broke rules to stay in power.
What is corruption?
The transition from farms to cities
What is Urbanization?
This person was responsible for almost completely controlling the railroad industry and has his name attached to common places still seen and visited today
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The West Coast immigration center where mostly Asian immigrants (specifically Chinese) entered
What is Angel Island
The attempt to ban alcohol in hopes of lowering crime rates, but instead led to an increase in crime
What is prohibition?
A leader of a business who grows to power from being selfish and hurting others in the process.
What is a Robber Baron?
This person is responsible for creating a monopoly in the oil industry with the Standard Oil Trust
Who is John D. Rockefeller
According to this photo, this is the view of Italian Immigrants in America
What are bad, dangerous, and invasive people? (answers may vary by the teacher)
Jacob Riis and Jane Addams brought attention to the this topic by taking pictures and helping people within these Urban Slums
What is poverty?
A leader of a business who abides by the rules and regulations to grow their business
What is a Captain of Industry?
This person was responsible for almost single handedly saving the US economy by investing in US Steel, buying stock in troubled corporations, all while donating to multiple organizations.
Who is J.P. morgan
According to the photo this is the viewpoint being expressed by the illustrator
What is the idea that Chinese men are being wrongfully not accepted/discriminated or America is letting the wrong people in (answers at teacher discretion)
This book brought attention to the meat packing industry making people demand for safer food and better working conditions.
What is The Jungle?
Reasons why people are drawn to another location, meaning the decide to leave their home in search of better
What are Pull Factors?
This person worked his way up in the railroad business and then eventually gained control of every step of the steel making process (vertical integration)
Who is Andrew Carnegie
To escape problems in home country and to look for better jobs/freedom.
Reasons immigrants moved to the United States
An investigative journalist or writer who exposes corruption, scandal, and social injustice in business and government
What is a Muckraker?
When someone is forced to leave their home
What are Push Factors?