Urbanization
Detail: Smoke, soot, and ash caused the problem of ______.
What is pollution?
How many Europeans came to America between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I?
What is 24 million?
What dangerous chemicals found their way into the meat processed at the plant?
What is glycerin, borax, or rat poison?
Between 1860 and 1890, the average worker's wages ______ by 50%. However, working conditions were often ________.
What is rose? What is poor?
Definition: 1 person owns the business
Term: Sole proprietorship
Sometimes entire families worked, including...
What is children?
How many immigrants passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954?
What is 12 million?
How did the packing plant disguise the rotten meat it was using?
Mixed with fresh, added chemicals/additives to disguise the flavor and color.
The uneven division of ________ between the wealthy and the working class led to a feeling of resentment among the __________.
What is wealth? What is the working class?
Definition: relying on your own resources, such as savings, retained profits, bank loans, and credit cards to raise money
What is a sole proprietorship?
This railroad was the only one not eventually forced into __________________.
What is bankruptcy?
How did nativist groups discriminate against Catholics?
What is refusing to vote for or hire catholics?
What steps did the political machine take to make sure that immigrants would: be allowed to vote? Know how to vote? Vote the way the political machine wanted?
Bribing them, showing how to vote and who to vote for.
Companies used _________ to break up unions by refusing to allow employees into their facilities to work.
What is lockouts?
Definition: a share or part ownership in a corporation
What is a stock?
Detail: This wealth led to accusations of swindling and bribery, resulting in many of the railroad owners being called ________.
What are Robber Barons?
What is nativism?
What is an extreme dislike to immigrants by native born people?
What unsanitary practices allowed deadly germs to find their way into the meat processed at the plant?
What are dirty hands, dead rats, meat on the floor, tuberculosis spit, and trash barrels?
Business leaders opposed workers of a particular industry forming _________.
What is Unions?
Definition: When several businesses merge to form one big company.
Horizontal Consolidation
Detail: The wealthiest families lived in the __________ of the city. As their homes grew larger they hired more _______.
What is the center? What are servants?
Why did many Chinese come to the United States?
What is unemployment, poverty, famine, and civil war?
How could you tell that the child labor inspector and the bosses at the plant are not really interested in the age of the employees?
They hired them even though they were obviously kids and had fake birth certificates.
One of the most famous female labor organizers was _______ (also called _________).
Who is Mary Jones? Who is Mother Jones?
Definition: When one company owns or controls everything from start to finish.
What is Vertical Integration?