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The Workplace
Migration
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Positives and Progressivism
100
The result of businesses cutting jobs and worker pay
What is what created strikes?
100
These immigrants lost many lives as they worked building the Intercontinental Railroad.
What are Irish and Chinese Immigrants?
100
This product, which improved American life, was mass produced using the assembly line, a method of the meat packing industry.
What is an automobile?
100
This improvement/invention created the use of more appliances within households.
What is electricity?
100
This group made advances in the workplace for women and children by shortening working hours and working to pass child labor laws.
What are Progressives?
200
Many people working in early industry and coal mines died as a result of little concern for this issue.
What is safety?
200
Some of the reasons for doing taking this action were the possibility of jobs, starvation within their country of birth, and the opportunity for gold.
What is immigration?
200
The railroads established four of these within the United States in order to stay on schedule.
What are time zones?
200
These poorly built houses were often overcrowded and filled with immigrants as cities expanded (urbanization) and industry grew.
What are tenements?
200
These living quarters, such as Hull House, were founded by social reformers and progressives to create an interdependent community between the rich and poor, establishing a larger middle class.
What are Settlement Houses?
300
Business owners thought of the organizers of unions like the Industrial Workers of the world as these types of people.
What are socialists and radicals?
300
Most of these immigrants entered through Angel Island.
What are Asian immigrants?
300
This government law was meant to break up monopolies and price fixing.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
300
This term refers to a group of people born in the United States who felt that they were more entitled to rights and openly practiced discrimination against immigrants.
What are Nativists?
300
This amendment gave women the right to vote for the first time.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
This incident caused 141 people to die because doors were locked and workers couldn't escape.
What is the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
400
This law enforcing discrimination against a particular group trying to immigrate into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
This term describes a group of people that gained power by controlling city safety forces, speaking the language of immigrants and promising them jobs for votes, and registering dead people, dogs, and children as voters.
What is s political machine?
400
This was an attempt by the government to regulate railroads who were putting farmers out of business by abusing land grants, price fixing, and charging different rates to different people.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
While the goals of progressivism included promoting moral improvement, protecting social welfare, creating economic reform and fostering efficiency, one negative that reemerged during the 1870's to 1920's was racial discrimination. Cite two examples of the emergence of racial discrimination
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Fergusson verdict, etc. (Answers may vary)?
500
Businesses used these people to cross picket lines in order to try to break a union.
What is a scab?
500
Term describing the migration of African-Americans in the USA from the south to the north to improve their lives by offering more opportunity and less discrimination.
What is the Great Migration?
500
This policy is a "hands-off" approach in which the government does not interfere in Capitalism (business competition).
What is Laissez-Faire Policy?
500
As the cities grew, so did discrimination especially in the South as apparent by the Plessy v Fergusson Supreme Court ruling of "separate, but equal." Name the laws creating separate facilities for White and African American citizens.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
500
This phrase on the Statue of Liberty offered a welcome and the hope of greater opportunities for wealth and success to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.
What is "I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door."