People
John Rockefeller
First national park, est. 1872
Yellowstone
What is an Export + and Example
Something made here and sold in another place- American cars, movies, video games, culture, food, media
What's an example of a food brought to the US by immigrants?
Bagels, Pasta, Ramen, Hamburgers, Sausage
True or False, immigrants were taken advantage of by businesses and paid poorly because they often came to America with nothing and needed jobs
True
Why did people move to cities?
Jobs and opportunity
Owner of U.S. Steel, Robber Baron
Andrew Carnegie
European Immigrants came through which immigration station? What was the name and it's location
Ellis Island, New York
What is an Import + an example
Something made somewhere else that's sold and shipped to the US
Japanese and German cars, videogames, technology
What is a Push Factor + and Example
something that makes you leave the place you are living
War, famine, crime, no jobs, no land
True or False, children never got hurt working in factories and were well protected
False
Many city dwellers lived in cramped apartments called...
Tenements
Railroad Robber Baron
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Asian Immigrants came through which immigration station? What was the name and it's location
Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
The use of machines to make products is called
Mechanization
What is a Pull Factor + and Example
Something that draws you to move somewhere
Peace, Land, Job opportunities, The American Dream
Why were children the preferred workers of many factories
worked for cheaper/ less money
the dirty conditions and contaminated drinking water led to an outbreak of what diease?
Cholera
Banking/Investment Robber Baron
JP Morgan
Many old immigrants were from countries like...
Ireland, the UK (England), Germany
Mass Production led to products being...
cheaper to make, made faster, cheaper to buy for customers
Who were nativists and what did they want?
'native born' Americans whose ancestor immigrated long ago who wanted to stop the new wave of immigrants who were from different countries and of different religions from the nativists
how many hours did labor unions want the work day to be?
8
Thanks to U.S. Steel, this was the first city in the US to build a skyscraper
Chicago
Inventor of Basketball
James Naismith
Many new immigrants came from EUROPEAN nations like...
Poland, Russia, Italy, Ukraine
A business being the only one you can buy a product from is called a...
Monopoly
Why is America called the 'melting pot?'
American people and culture is a mixture of all the different people that have come here in search of a better life. Their food, traditions, culture, and beliefs have become part of America's culture
How did Mechanization effect farms and force people to cities?
one machine could do the work of many farmhand workers and put them out of a job
Assimilate, Americanize them
Newspaper writer and namesake of literature award
Joseph Pulitzer
China, Japan, India
The first example of the government intervening in the economy was the...
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) of 1877
Many new European immigrants where followers of what religions?
Catholic Christianity or Jewish
Labor unions fought mainly for what 3 improvements?
Better hours, pay, and working conditions
Quickly rising populations and crime led to what being commonplace in America cities?
Police
Scottish Enlightenment thinker, Father of Capitalism, Author of The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith
This act/law banned monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
What religion(s) were many Asian immigrants who came to America?
Hindus from India or Buddhists from China and Japan
What event resulted in the demise (end) of the Knights of Labor
Haymarket Riot Bombing
A large chunk of this city burned in 1871 when, allegedly, a cow knocked over a lamp in a barn
Chicago