All About Industrial Revolution
The main use for dynamite.
What is mining?
The famous place in New York where immigrants became U.S. citizens.
What is Ellis Island?
The largest immigrant group in the United States.
Who are the Germans?
True or False: Jewish immigrants mainly came from Western Europe.
What is false?
(They came from Eastern Europe.)
Many Mexicans became citizens of the U.S. from this event.
What is Texas becoming a state (annexation of Texas)?
The telegraph implements this system of communication?
What is Morse Code?
Nickname for "native" Americans against Catholic immigrants.
What is WASP?
The largest illegal employer of Italian immigrants.
What is the mafia?
Many immigrants from Europe left for these two reasons.
What are poverty and religious freedom?
The number of Germans that immigrated between the 17th and 19th centuries.
What is more than 5 million?
(~7 million- exact answer)
A legal document that safeguards intellectual property from being copied.
What is a patent?
Name 2 beliefs/values of the Know Nothing Party.
What are no Catholics in office, Protestant Bible reading in schools, temperance? IOther answers may be accepted.)
Illegal murders that many Jewish families faced.
What are pogroms?
Many Jewish people had trouble assimilating because they spoke this language.
What is Yiddish?
City in Texas known as the Mexican Ellis Island.
What is El Paso?
______s are used to power machinery, while ______s are used to power railroad vehicles.
What are steam engines and steam locomotives.
Name for types of factories/manufacturing that many immigrants worked at. There were long hours and dangerous working conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
Immigrant groups in cities typically identified with this political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
(Many immigrants were in favor of their social ideas about unions, the work force, etc.)
True or false: many Mexican immigrants and their children were sent back to Mexico around the time of the Great Depression.
What is true?
(Mexican Repatriation Act of 1929)
This federal law restricted immigration from many countries in southern and eastern Europe in 1924.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This is the industry Andrew Carnegie dealt with when he made his fortune.
What is coal mining/distribution?
Many immigrants couldn't afford staterooms on ships to America. They stayed here.
What is steerage?
The name of the Russian leader that caused problems for Jewish people.
Who was Tsar Alexander II?
(His death caused many Jewish people to lose farm land they were promised in Russia.)
Many immigrants in urban areas lived here because they couldn't afford their own houses/apartments.
What is tenement housing?
Name 2 of the 3 biggest industries Mexican immigrants worked in.
What are farming, mining, and railroads?