Industrialization
Before the Civil war most people lived in ________ and worked on ________
rural areas & farms
what age group often worked with dangerous machines
children
Immigrants arrived in ____
waves
most immigrants moved to northeast and midwest for?
land
competing companies work together to limit competition
a trust
Manufacturing
families worked ____ a day
10 + hours a day
where did most immigrants come from?
Western & Northern Europe
Farmers moved for jobs?
factory cities
what are Monopoly's ?
the control over the industry
list three natural resources and what they provided in the US.
coal, iron, oil provided steel and oil
who had the lowest wages in a family?
the kids
immigrants occured?
before the 1890's
Social Campaigns were sponsored by? (name one of the three)
Government, social groups, & schools
most people in the inner city were?
poor
during what time did industrialization occur
the 1860's
amount of workers killed each week
675 workers
another word for Anti-immigrant groups
Nativists
what skills were citizens required to learn?
academic skills
group that controlled political parties in a city
Political Machine
where did people go to purchase products?
the market
workers _____ were only power against bosses
numbers
Native born individuals often?
reform
charity group that still exist today
Salvation Army
people who skim money from government contracts
City Bosses