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Describe the location of New Orleans and the type of immigrants who moved there.
Many German immigrants made their way up the Mississippi river.
Which industry did Francis Lowell invest in?
Factory system
What industry did John. D Rockefeller excel in?
The Oil Industry
Who built their wealth on the railroads?
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
What is the definition of New Immigration?
The name for the wave of immigration to the united states after the Civil war.
Name two types of jobs that were open for most new immigrants.
Factory and construction workers.
What did labor unions fight for in the late 1800s?
Shorter hours and better working conditions.
Who founded the American Federation of Labor?
Samuel Gompers
What business did J.P Morgan invest in?
Banking
Andrew Carnegie invested business into what?
Steel
Why was Theodore Roosevelt called a trustbuster?
He broke up powerful companies and trusts.
What did the 13th amendment do ?
Put an end to slavery in America.
True or False: Immigrants settled in big cities after the Civil war.
True
True or False: Immigrant workers worked in safe conditions and got paid a fair amount in factories.
False: Immigrants experienced dangerous working conditions and were paid low wages in factories.
True or False: Farmers formed the Populist Party to support railroads and large businesses.
False
What did the Pure food and Drug Act help protect consumers from?
Unsafe products made in factories.
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote in America.
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the light build and phonograph?
Thomas Edison
What groups did Samuel Gompers lead?
Unions
Describe the location of Ellis Island and the type of immigrants who moved there.
Ellis Island was an immigrant processing center in New York Harbor, that processed over 12 million immigrants who were greeted by the Statue of Liberty.
Describe the location of San Fransisco and the type of immigrants who moved there.
San Fransisco was a port of entry to the United States for many Asian immigrants.
Describe the location of Philadelphia and the type of immigrants who moved there.
Philadelphia was a port of entry, with 1.3 million immigrants passing through, a primary destination for European settlers, fostering a diverse immigrant population
Name 3 reasons why garbage and sewage disposal became important in cities.
City populations grew larger.
Many people lived in a single tenement.
Diseases spread quickly in cities.
What did muckrakers fight for? Name two people contributed to the movement.
Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair were muckrakers.
They fought to expose issues and corruption in big businesses.