Identify one push factor and identify one pull factor.
Push - Poverty, disease, civil war, religious/ethnic persecution, lack of land, lack of opportunity
Pull - cheap land, job opportunities, free education, freedom
300
What was the name of the process that produced cheaper, stronger steel?
Bessemer Process
300
What is a monopoly?
When one business controls all or nearly all of an industry
300
What was the name of buildings divided into many small, cramped apartments, often without heat or running water?
Tenements
400
Who gained control of the oil refining industry when he formed Standard Oil Trust?
John D. Rockefeller
400
Explain one reason why Nativists were against immigration in the late 1800s.
Believed immigrants were taking jobs, "new immigrants" were of different religions and cultures, "new immigrants" did not speak English
400
What document gives an inventor the sole right to produce and sell his invention?
Patent
400
What is an entrepreneur?
Someone who establishes a business to make money
400
What national labor union included unskilled labor, immigrants, women, and blacks?
Knights of Labor
500
Who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Samuel Gompers
500
What was the first immigration law that excluded a certain group of people?
Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Where was the first oil strike in the United States?
Titusville, Pennsylvania
500
Give one argument supporting big business and one argument opposing big business.
Supporting - creates a more stable economy, creates jobs, runs more efficiently and keeps prices low
Opposing - creates monopolies and drives out free competition, creates powerful business owners who can influence government, price-fixing
500
Who is the woman reformer who opens the first settlement house in Chicago and what is the name of this settlement house?