Show:
Immigration
Industrialization
Urbanization
Workers Rights
Vocabulary
100
European immigrants entered the United States here.
Where is Ellis Island?
100
A market where one company has complete control over an entire industry.
What is a Monopoly?
100
These are single family homes with a shared side wall, similar to a townhouse. Usually 8-12 people lived in them.
What are Row Houses?
100
This group of the workforce was crucial to business owners because they had little hands that could fix things.
Who are children?
100
Developed in 1882, this was the banishment of an Asian group of immigrants to the US for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
Asian immigrants entered the United States here
Where is Angel Island?
200
Bridges, skyscrapers, and railroads are made out of this strong material.
What is steel?
200
This movement made programs to teach immigrants the English language, American history, and government.
What is the Americanization Movement?
200
Dissatisfied with working conditions, workers got together and started to form these asking for fair wages and better working conditions.
What are labor unions?
200
A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and customs and start to share common customs.
What is a melting pot?
300
List at least 3 reasons why Europeans were pushed from their home countries.
What are: Wars, Religion, Famine (hunger crops not coming in) and over population?
300
This invention changed business in the U.S. It was used to run machines and soon to be in homes. It gave manufacturers the chance to set up factories anywhere instead of near a river or lake.
What is Electricity?
300
Most immigrants were away from the rest of American society. Many outsiders had negative opinions and feelings towards the immigrants. What word describes this?
What is prejudice?
300
In the early 1900's this group of workers doubled and earned only half of men's wages.
Who are women?
300
A place where manual workers are employed in poor working conditions with low wages and long hours.
What is a sweatshop?
400
When immigrants entered the US they had to prove they had these three requirements.
What is proving you are able to work, prove you can read/write in your home language, and show that you have $25
400
List the 3 main Industrial Giants:
What are: 1: Railroads 2: Steel 3: Oil
400
These people preyed on new immigrants because they knew they had some money and needed help.
What is Con men? Also: Bosses, mafia, gangs, pickpockets, thieves, etc...
400
List 4 major problems with working conditions in the early 1900's?
What is NO Vacation, NO sick leave, NO unemployment compensation for injuries at work, Long hours, poor air or lighting.
400
What was a neighborhood called that was overcrowded and had dangerous housing?
What is a slum?
500
To leave someones home country.
What is to emigrate?
500
List the 3 main reasons for the Industrial Boom?
What is: 1: Natural Resources (coal, iron ore, wood) 2: Inventions 3: Growing urban population
500
List 4 major problems immigrants faced living in the cities.
What is: 1: Housing 2: Garbage/Sanitation 3: Transportation 4: Water 5: Crime
500
Explain the cause and effect of Labor Unions. AND: List three examples of the workers experience BEFORE and what was the result AFTER.
Cause: Workers experience bad pay, no breaks, long hours, poor working conditions, and no job security. Effect: Workers organized into Labor Unions to fight for their rights, which they eventually won.
500
Name the TWO new transportation inventions that were introduced to link communities together, and provide a means of mass transit.
What is Streetcars and the Subway?