Ch 4 Terms
What is Mrs. Boatwright's husband's name?
^ Ms. Fletcher's Fiance
^Mrs. Cuzzort's Husband
Brandon- or Mr. Boatwright to you
Area below a ships deck where steering mechanisms were located. Most immigrants traveled this way because tickets were inexpensive.
Steerage
What is Mrs. Boatwright's favorite holiday?
^fill in with your teachers name
Easter
She established Hull House.
Jane Adams
What island did ASAIN immigrants come in at?
Angel Island
Neighborhood centers that offered recreational, educational, and social activities for immigrants.
Settlement Houses
This group of immigrants was mainly from southern and eastern Europe. This included; Czechs, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, Russians, and Slovaks.
New Immigrants
These are often associated with the clothing industry, these types of workplaces had long hours and hot, unhealthy working conditions.
Sweat Shops
Who did immigrant families tend to live around?
Other immigrants from the same homeland.
low paying-unskilled
Made the moving assembly line and Model-T
Henry Ford
Where were old immigrants from and give me one example of a place.
Northern Europe- Germany, Great Britain
Laborers working together to negotiate for better pay and conditions
Collective Bargaining
Rejection percentage at Ellis Island?
less than 2%
What did cities build to help with transportation- hint these are under the city streets and we still have them today in big cities
subways
Residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas that had begun springing up before the Civil War.
Suburbs
East Coast processing center
Ellis Island
The labor force went from what type of worker, before the Industrial Revolution, to this type of worker after.
This person became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York tenements.
Jacob Riis
What was a factor that led to Chicagos growth?
Many railroads ran through Chicago, connecting it from East to West
He was the publisher of the New York Journal, saw that comics helped sell newspaper so he added color comic strips to the Journal.
William Randolph Hearst
Leisure and cultural activities shared by many people
Mass Culture
What is specialization?
Workers repeating the same steps over and over again- makes it easy to become bored and get injured easily.
This woman went to sweatshops and wrote about the problems there. Her work helped to pass laws to limit womens work hours and child labor
Florence Kelley
He was a landscape architect, who designed Central Park in New York City, as well as many state and national parks.
Fredrick Olmstead