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In 1887 Congress responded by creating the _______to monitor railroad shipping rates
What is: Intersection Commerce Commission
What is the definition of steerage?
What is: the part of a ship providing accommodations for passengers with the cheapest tickets?
By the 1880s American exports of what three things dominated international markets?
What is: Grain, Stee, and Textiles?
What occurred during the Great Atlantic Migration?
What is: Between 1820 and1980, 37 million people left Europe and immigrated to North America?
How are Mexicans among both the oldest and newest immigrants to the United States?
WHat is: Spanish Americans from Mexico settled in the Southwest centuries ago, people from Mexico continue immigrating.
What was the Homestead Strike?
What is: It was part of an epidemic of steelworkers' andminers' strikes that took place as economic depression spread across America.
Which one of the nationalities below was not included in the largest migration to America?
Russians
Greeks
Italians
Arabs
What is Arabs?
In May 1886, thousands of workers in Chicago mounted a national demonstration for what?
What is 8 hour workday?
How did immigrants children become Americanized?
What is : at school, they learned the country's language, history , and customs?
What factors led to high immigration from the Caribbean and from Central and South America between 1960 and 1979?
What is: Revollution and economic instability brought many immigrants from these areas?
What was the Haymarket Riot?
What is: Violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886 that became a signal for struggling workers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
What is: The act prohibiting immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
John D. Rockefeller was once the richest main in the country. He was referred to as what type of tycoon?
What is oil?
People from which ethnic group moved to wisconsin and Minnesota and why?
What is: Scandinavians moved to Wisoconsin andMinnesota;the region's climate reminded them of home?
Why did large numbers of Europeans emigrate to America between 1750 and 1850?
What is Europe's population doubled during that period, and the Indusgtrial Revolution left many craftspeople out of work.
To promote the buying of Aerican goods Congress enacted_____, or taxes that made imported goods cost more than those made in the United States.
What is: Predicted tarrifs.
Which one of these two was a stop in New York, and California for New immigrants coming to America?
What is: Ellis Island, and Angel Island?
What is the definition of a patent?
What is: a grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time?
Why do you think one in every three immigrants who landed in New York City around the turn of the 20th Century remained there?
What is: There were many large ethnic communties in New York where immigrants' families or friends might have lived?
FOr many years the immigration levels of the early 20th Century remained the largest influx of immigrant in U.S. history. In what decade were these immigration levels surpassed?
What is: The 1990s?
What is the definition of collective bargaining?
What is: negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
What knowledge and abilities must one demonstrate to become a U.S. citizen?
What is: One must show knowledge of U.S. history and the ability to read, write, and speak English.
What is the definition of a monopoly?
What is: The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service?
What was the name of the organization that Jane Hull founded?
What is: Hull House?
Why is a visa necessary for someone hoping to become a U.S. citizen?
What is The visa permits someone to enter the United State as a permanent resident; one must live in the United States for five years before applying for citizenship.