The word for: One company controls an entire industry
monopoly
What type of work did many immigrants do in cities?
Unskilled Factory Work
This muckraker/book wrote a book exposing unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
The shift from an agricultural economy to one based on factories, machines, and mass production.
Industrialization
What were the TWO sports Villar played in High School?
Fencing and Golf
This monopolist controlled the oil industry through Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
What were tenements?
Apartments that were often overcrowded, usually used by Immigrants.
This work exposed how immigrants lived in overcrowded and unsafe housing.
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
The Process where cities begin developing and expanding.
Urbanization
Name ONE of Villar's favorite bands
Linkin Park, MCR, the Beatles
This business leader controlled the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Where did the New Immigrants come from?
Southern and Eastern Europe
This muckraker’s work helped lead to the breakup of Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
The process of a new member of society adopting the culture, language, and customs of the country where they live.
Assimilation
Which is Villar's favorite wood type from Minecraft?
Spruce
Villar forgot this letter existed.