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Business of a Factory
Business of a Factory II
Urbanization
100
They were the major industrial factories that often provided the financial backbone for the entire city.
What is a mill?
100
Friendly relations, no strikes, however carelessness punished by discharge.
What are the working conditions/atmosphere in a mill?
100
A starting place for new immigrants where they were processed and allowed/not allowed to enter the country?
What is Ellis Island?
200
The workers had to spend THIS much time working in the mill a day.
What is a 10 hour working day?
200
$175/year and 13 hour days VS $300/year
What is the difference to 1850?
200
Invention that helped spread the cities and established suburbs. A means of transportation.
What is an electrical trolley?
300
For the workers at the mill, an hour each day was meant to be used for this
What is the rest?
300
Libraries, hospitals, gardens, saving societies.
What are the ways the factories help out the workers?
300
These are religious movements that tried to save people from negative effects of modern life.
What is the YMCA/Salvation Army?
400
Women, men, children, old immigrants, new immigrants and Native Americans.
Who was working in the mills?
400
These are the efforts of the factories to help out at the home of the workers.
What is a garden, flowers and sanitary environment?
400
In California, an Irish immigrant and the Knights of Labor were concerned about jobs for Americans and lower wages. They passed this act in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
Division of labor where one worker specializes on just one part in the product's manufacturing
What is a minute division of labor?
500
Weary, unsanitary houses for temporary young immigrant mill workers
What is a boarding-house?
500
It was a large influx of people from eastern and southern Europe, Catholics, Jews, orthodox Christians
What is the new immigration?