Cities
This term refers to the growth of cities.
Urbanization
This term refers to the rise of factories and machines doing the work of people.
Industrialization
Answer the question and gain 100 points for every fill in the blank.
This occurred in _______, destroying the crop most of the country relied on and caused _____ deaths as well as ______ Irish to emigrate.
The Potato Famine
Ireland, 1 million, 2 million
"________" immigrants were mostly Catholic, Jewish or Greek Orthodox and arrived from places like Italy, Russia, Poland and Asia.
Old or New
New
Take away 100 from any team if correct.
This place in NYC was one of the worse urban slums in the world from the mid 1800's and early 1900's.
The Five Points
Take away 200 points from any team.
In the 1800's many people moved to urban areas from ______ areas.
Rural
Name 4 important inventions that were created in the 1800's.
Tin can, light bulb, battery, washer, dryer, revolver, dynamite...
_______ factors cause people to LEAVE their countries. Give 3 of these factors as well.
Push factors: war, unemployment, famine, unstable government, persecution...
Today, child labor is still a problem because laws do not include workers involved in _________.
Farming or agriculture
Ellis Island
Jacob Riss
Daily Double
Before this, steel was very difficult and expensive to make. This blasted molten iron with oxygen to create steel which was used to build skyscrapers and railroads.
The Bessemer Process
This was an immigration station for mostly Asian immigrants. It was infamous for they way immigrants were kept there for long periods of time and treated harshly.
Angel Island
Daily Double
How tall is the Freedom Tower in NYC and what does it symbolize?
1776 feet for the Declaration of Independence
These are the rundown, cheaply made unsanitary apartments that were located throughout NYC and the home to many immigrants.
tenements
Because of this, many people across the world began to migrate to cities for industrial jobs.
Industrial Revolution
When people went from making things by hand to making things by machine is known as the ____________ __________.
Industrial Revolution
This group was anti-immigration and anti-catholic, even though they themselves or their ancestors were immigrants.
Nativists
This photographer used his camera as a weapon to expose the problems of child labor and the mistreatment of child workers.
Louis Hine
Name 4 NYC landmarks or structures we discussed in class.
Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Freedom Tower, Flatiron Building...
Name 3 ethnic groups or nationalities that helped build our skyscrapers in NYC.
Mostly Native American (Mohawks), Irish, German, Italian
He gambled with an investment on the process of making iron into steel. He ended up controlling 90% of the steel made in the US.
Andrew Carnegie
This occurred in NYC during the Civil War. It resulted in sections of the city destroyed with at least 100 deaths and 2000 injured.
NYC Draft Riots
These two gangs of NYC were rivals. One was an Irish gang and the other Nativists.
Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys
He was the governor of New York and later became president. He passed laws regulating tenements and and fixing the Lower East Side.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt