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Industrial Revolution
Immigration
Stock Market
Terms
Round Robin
100
Because of their business practices, the men who created the IR were called?
Robber Barons
100
From what regions did the New Wave of immigrant come from?
So East Europe and Asia
100
How do you make money on the stock market?
buy low, sell high
100
What did they call workers that work in place of striking workers?
scabs
100
Name a cause of the IR
immigration, new inventions, inventors, abundant resources, investors, civil war, need or want,
200
Tragic fire that showed the problem of uncontrolled industrialization.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
200
What were the two major immigration centers in the USA called?
Ellis Island and Angel island
200
What is the economic system of the USA and what is its basic principle?
Capitalism, private ownership
200
What is meant by the Gilded Age?
Everything looked good on the surface of American society by it was rotting underneath
200
Name an Industrialists and the industry he owned
Many
300
Why was The Jungle such a big issue?
it showed the problem with processed meat
300
What was the difference in the New Wave and Old Wave immigrants?
did not speak English, Jewish and Catholic, very different customs
300
Who buys stock for people?
Broker
300
When a company totally controls an industry
Monopoly
300
Name an invention and it's inventor
Heck of a lot
400
Man that started the American IR
Sam Slater
400
Woman that started Hull House
Jane Addams
400
What is a piece of the company that you can buy called?
A share
400
Place where most immigrants rode on the boats? Describe it (3)
steerage, low lights, little food, crowded, disease
400
Name one way workers could fight against owners
form a union, strike, sit down, quit, violence
500
When the government does not get involved with business it is called
Laissez-faire
500
How many immigrants were actually rejected from Ellis Island?
2%
500
What system tells you how the NYSE is doing on any day? (Hint: he was a real person!)
Dow Jones average
500
Law that did not allow Chinese (Asians) to become citizens of the USA
Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Name one way employers fought against employers
strikebreakers, fire them, use the government, violence, lock them out, blacklist