All About Industry
The Pittsburgh Steelers team name comes from this big industry in the city.
Something employees of a company do to protest working in order to gain concessions.
What is a strike?
Push/Pull Factors:
One thing that pushes people to leave their country?
One thing that pulls people into another country?
Pull Factors: What are safety, opportunity, stability, freedom?
What is meant by the word "individualism"?
What is "No matter where you come from, you can be successful through hard work"?
Better paying jobs, electricity, running water, plumbing, and entertainment were all reasons Americans did what in the late 1800s?
This is what it is called when one company owns all or almost all of the production of a particular product. It is also a board game.
What is monopoly?
An organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry
What is a union/an industrial union?
What is a dislike of immigrants by native-born Americans called?
What is nativism?
What is the Social Gospel?
What is a movement to help the urban poor (based on biblical ideas of charity and justice)?
Working class people in cities lived in these multi-family apartments that were usually barely met minimum living conditions.
What are tenements?
This industrialist got rich through banking and investments.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Something a company does to fight demands from unions by not allowing employeees to enter the facilities to work
What is a lockout?
He wrote the book, "How the Other Half Lives", to document the lives and struggles of urban immigrants living in poverty in New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis?
What is the idea that society evolved through competition and natural selection (i.e. "survival of the fittest")?
What is Social Darwinism?
These were groups of people who ran a city and provided things like jobs, housing, food, and protection in exchange for votes from the people they helped. They were corrupt and stole a lot of money.
What are political machines?
What is vertical integration?
Which labor dispute/riot resulted in a bomb being set off and people being killed?
What is the Haymarket Riot?
What law of 1882 tried to limit the number of Chinese immigrants coming to the United States?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Name one thing the Salvation Army and the YMCA offered to people?
What is practical aid, religious counseling, bible study, citizenship training, or group activities?
Name the man who was the most infamous party boss of the Democratic political machine, Tammany Hall that ran New York City.
Who is Tweed/Boss Tweed?
This industrialist got rich by buying and merging railroads from New York to Chicago.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Which labor leader was the first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Who is Samuel Gompers/Gompers?
She created the Hull House, a settlement house that provided services to newly arrived immigrants
Who is Jane Addams?
Why did author Mark Twain call this time period "The Gilded Age"?
What is "it was a warning – The age may appear wonderful, but hides corruption, poverty, crime and great inequality between rich and poor"?
Name the man who fought against the corruption of political machines by publishing cartoons exposing their greed and corruption.
Who is Nast/Thomas Nast?