Journey
Ellis Island processed passengers from this mode of transportation
What is a Steamship?
A chalk mark during the medical exam would result in this
What is a longer medical exam?
Described by Adam Smith, these 'laws' naturally regulate the economy in capitalism
What is supply and demand?
The distinguishing feature between communism and other types of socialism.
What is a bloody revolution?
Covered in a thin layer of gold, which would hide a cheaper, uglier, and/or worthless material underneath.
What is Gilded?
Angel Island is located in a harbor outside this city
What is San Francisco?
The term for a factor that caused people to want to move out of their country of origin
What is a push factor?
Approximately this percentage of people were sent back to their home country at Ellis Island (can be within 2% of the answer).
What is 1-2%
When one company or trust has complete control or exclusively dominates a market
What is a monopoly?
The type of economic system where private ownership of the means of production and competition rule. Capitalism is an example.
What is a market economy?
Socialism and communism began to appeal to American workers because of these reasons (give at least one)
Answers may vary, but include:
- low wages
- failure of national/large scale strikes
- long hours and other poor working conditions
Carved into the walls of Angel Island, these illustrate the thoughts and feelings of detained migrants
What are poems?
The term for a factor that made a migrant decide to go to one country over another. In the US, these might include jobs, freedom of religion, etc.
What is a pull factor?
The instrument used to lift the eyelids of migrants to check for disease
I've made my cookies cheaper by purchasing all the means of production of ingredients, including wheat and sugar farms, cocoa plantations, as well as transportation and wagons to sell them. You could say I've __________ integrated
What is vertically integrated? (Or vertical integration).
What is a command economy?
Overall, migration to the United States from Europe prior to the 1920's could be described in this way
What is open, easy to accomplish, etc.?
Daily Double
Immigration restrictions began in the 1880's under this law, which was also the first federal and first ethnic based immigration restriction law.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
People with these tickets were processed on the ship and could skip Ellis Island entirely.
What is 1st and/or 2nd class?
What is no criminal record and they had at least 20 dollars cash?
I'm an investor who wants to make sure that debtors can't come after my home or other assets if the company I've invested in fails. I will make sure I invest in this type of company, common in the Gilded Age.
What is Limited Liability Corporation?
Father of communism, his theory was that industrial capitalism would create so wide of a divide between the have and have nots that the have nots (aka the 'proletariat') would rise up in a bloody revolution.
Who is Karl Marx?
Terms used to describe the owners of industries in the Gilded Age; one has a positive connotation, the other is negative
What is "Captain of Industry" and "Robber Baron"?
The term for a migrant from China that purchased citizenship papers.
What are paper sons or paper daughters?
The 3rd class in the ship is also known as this.
What is steerage?
The word for a person who has been detained at Ellis Island for a communicable disease. They would be admitted to Ellis Island's hospital and put in this, ensuring that they did not spread the disease.
What is Quarantine?
Prior to the Civil War, industrialization occurred in the textile industry and more good were being made using specialization and division of labor. This time period is called the 1st Industrial Revolution, or
What is the Market Revolution?
What is communists advocated for a revolution against the status quo of society, which included racial segregation?
What is mostly closed, very difficult/expensive, etc.
Trivia Time Out! What famous San Francisco shares a harbor with Angel Island (in fact, you can take the same ferry to tour both!)
What is Alcatraz Prison?