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This is total control over a product in an area.

Monopoly
100

This is something that make someone want to move AWAY from them their country.

Push Factor


100

This is the immigration port in California for Asian Immigrants.

Angel Island.

100

This is the immigration port in New York for European Immigrants.

Ellis Island
100
This is something that would ATTRACT someone to your country.

Pull Factor

200

What was needed to make skyscrapers

steel

200

Where were most native americans moved to at the end of the century?

Reservations

200

This was a time period in America where everything looked super nice and glamorous but actually had tons of flaws within it.

Gilded Age

200

Cheap housing especially for immigrants

Tenements

200

Why were skyscrapers so valuable in cities?

Saved space, saved money

300

Name of President who was assassinated due to the disadvantages of the spoils system. 

James Garfield

300

Why were sweatshops so unsafe?

Bad ventilation

Loud machines

No safety equipment 

children working etc

300

Why was it smarter for factories to hire children over adults?

Cheaper

300

What made people move out of farms

Crop unsure, weather unsure, tough work

300

The invention of this helped ranchers in Texas keep their cattle in their property lines

Barbed Wire.

400

Why is America seen as the melting pot?

All different cultures and ethnicities come into the country and "melt" into one

400

What are the advantages of living in a city over a farm?

Higher quality of living, better paying jobs, more entertainment

400

Negatives of a city.

Bad working conditions, high crime, bad living conditions

400

Give 2 reasons why America had pull factors

Freedom from wars

More economic opportunity

more land  

400

Why were Asians so important for the expansion of the U.S.

built the railroads

500

This idea is how big businesses justified their monopolies

social Darwinism "survival of the fittest"

500

How does mass production improve quality of life

More clothes, products, books, which all can improve the length, quality, or education in someone's life.

500

List 2 new cultural ideas in America that people were doing for fun?

Circus, baseball, dancing, etc

500

What 2 things did unions form to accomplish?

Better pay and better working conditions or hours.

500

List a situation in which immigrants were mistreated.

Asian Americans and the exclusion act, moving immigrants into ghettos, etc.