Immigration
Immigrants from Europe first arrived in this immigration processing center
What is Ellis Island
These are some of the jobs children worked during this time period
What are factories, mining, newspapers, farming, etc
This was the name of houses that immigrants lived in
What are tenement houses?
This is the name for one company controlling an entire industry
What is monopoly?
Immigrants from China came to work in these industries
What are railroads and mining?
This was the name of the system invented by Henry Ford, which increased productivity
What is the assembly line?
What were immigration, industrialization, and the invention of the car?
This is the name for the economic idea where the government does not interfere in private business
What is laissez-faire economics?
List 3 push factors and 3 pull factors.
Push: poor working conditions, war/compulsory military service, tyranny, religious oppression, famine/loss of arable land, etc
Pull: democracy, better living conditions, opportunity for social advancement, land ownership, joining family already here, etc
Other than creating light, this was the most important impact of the lightbulb.
What are longer work hours and increased productivity
This photograph revealed what life was like for immigrants and the poor.
Who is Jacob Riis?
These two expressions can be used to describe wealthy industrialists at the time, depending on if the focus is on their positive or negative contributions.
What are Captains of Industry and Robber Barons?
This was the goal of the Americanizatio Movement
What is forced assimilation?
Laws were passed that effectively banned child labor in the Gilded Age, leading to no child laborers. (True/False and why)
False - they were ruled unconstitutional
What is health, fire, safety issues; dirty and diseased cities, etc
Andrew Carnegie was a believer in this philosophy, which says those natural selection ensures those who are 'fittest' have wealth or power.
What is social darwinism?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was significant because
it banned immigration from China for 10 years and was the first nationality based immigration law
This was the strike in a Carnegie Steel Factory, that resulted in 9 deaths and no progress for workers
What is the Homestead Strike of 1892
This is the area in a city primarily occupied by immigrants from the same country (i.e. Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Little Italy)
What is an ethnic enclave?
This is the name of the photographer who took photos of child laboreres.
Who is Lewis Hines?