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How did advances in transportation link resources, products, and markets? Moving _______ deposits to sites of steel mills in _______.
Iron Ore, Pittsburg
Which factor contributed most to the rise of inner city overcrowding?
industrialization
A factory owner in New York City likely supported what concept?
Industrialization
Which reform effort did the Progressives support
minimum wage
An immigrant working in a meat packing plant in Chicago likely supported what concept?
Progressivism
Effects of Competition in Transportation Industry
-Access to affordable goods
-Competitive shipping rates
-_____________?
Expansion of transcontinential railroad
a farmer on the Great Plains likely supported what concept?
Populist Movement
-A worker makes a component of a product
-Many items are produced at the same time
-Cost of item is reduced
Development of the assembly line
Growth of manufacturing sector INCREASED what?
migration to urban areas
A factory worker striking for better wages likely supported what concept?
Organized labor
What is a push factor?
reason why a person wants to leave their home country
What is a pull factor?
reason why a person wants to come to another country
The Progressive Movement had goals to improve the workplace by making what changes?
Putting legal restrictions on child labor
What is Angel Island and Ellis Island?
Immigrant Stations
Angel Island- West Coast
Ellis Island- East Coast
Who came to US to join California Gold Rush, worked as laborers on farms, in factories, in construction, and suffered discrimination and legal restrictions on immigration
Chinese Americans
Name THREE reasons for the rise of big businesses
-Advertisements were placed in mail order catalogs
-Assembly lines decreased the cost of products
-More railroads were used to transport products
What was one result of the 1894 Pullman Strike?
Business owners began to appeal to the federal government during labor disputes
Progressive Era support for eugenics as a social policy
supported as a way to use science to prevent people they considered unfit from having children
What are reasons immigrants arrived in the US between 1870 and 1900?
religious freedom
escape high taxes
escape famine and land shortages
John D Rockefeller- _______ industry?
Andrew Carnegie-__________industry?
J.P. Morgan- ______________?
Oil
Steel
Companies Merge into Bigger Companies
How did the 1893 World's Fair affect the city of Chicago and how did it help boost American business and trade?
It introduced architecture that shaped Future city planning
and
It showcased US inventions to the world, attracting interest and investment
You are a 12 year old child. Every morning you wake up at 5:30 and walk a mile to work. While at work, you will get a half an hour break to eat lunch. When you finish your 15 hour work day, you will walk home once again. If you get a Sunday off, you are lucky... What era do you live in??
The Industrial Revolution
Settlers on the West Coast blamed declining wages and economic problems on ___________?
Chinese, because of the willingness to work on jobs like the railroad, which paid poorly and did not provide much safety
What was one purpose of the settlement house movement and who established this to aid immigrant families?
to facilitate the assimilation of immigrants, provide immigrants various services and Jane Addams established the Hull House
-Overcrowded tenements
-Dangerous working conditions
-Segregated ethnic neighborhoods
immigrants in Urban areas