Immigration
Define PUSH.
A negative factor or reason for a person/people to leave their home country to settle in a new country.
Andrew Carnegie made his fortune and riches in what industry?
The steel industry.
Where did the heaviest fighting of the war take place?
Cuba
Name a benefit electricity brought to US cities during this time period.
You could hold events at night.
What two main things did immigration stations check for incoming immigrants into America?
Serious diseases and criminals or fugitives from the law.
Define PULL
A positive factor or reason that would cause a person/people to leave their home country and settle in a new one.
John Rockefeller was involved in what industry?
The oil industry.
What event led to the start of the war?
The sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor.
Name at least two problems of living in big US cities during this time period.
Overcrowded, poor housing for immigrants and the poor, and poor sanitation.
Museums in cities were a source of entertainment for people living in the cities. True or False?
True
Is this a pull or push factor? Better life and better job opportunities
Pull Factor
Which American Industrialist made his fortune in the railroads?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Which territories did the United States receive by winning the war?
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Phillippines.
Name at least three benefits of living in the city during this time period.
More jobs opportunities, various transportation, different types of entertainment, and more technology available.
The telephone was an invention that made distant communication easier starting in the 1870s? True or False
True
Which continent did the majority of immigrants who went to Angel Island come from?
Asia
What was the Bessemer Process? Explain
A method in where steel could be made inexpensively and in large amounts.
Define the word Imperialism.
When a stronger nation takes over a weaker one and uses it resources and controls its markets.
Define Sanitation
The carrying away of human waste.
Describe what was a tenement
A cheaply constructed apartment building that was noisy and crowded; with some not having plumbing.
Italian and Jewish immigrants came from which continent?
Europe
What is a monopoly?
When a company has complete control of a market with very little or no competition.
After winning the Spanish American War, did the US become an imperialistic country? explain
Yes, the US now took over territories/countries outside the borders of their own; and controlled their peoples.
What two technologies led to growth of the large modern city in America?
Steel (Bessemer Process) and the elevator.
Why did US Secretary of State John Hay called the Spanish American War a "Splendid Little War"?
The US fought a short war with not great losses and got new oversea territories.