Beginnings of Industrialization
These are negative factors that cause people to leave a country.
what are push factors?
A term for when workers band together and refuse to work
What is a strike?
This term was a derogatory term given to industrial titans to criticize their corrupt business practices
What is a Robber Baron?
This was the place where many immigrants to the East Coast of the United States went first for inspection.
What is Ellis Island?
A market situation in which one company or seller controls the entire supply of a good or service, with no close competitors, allowing it to set prices and limit output.
What is a monopoly?
A term for a single company owning the raw materials, factories, and transportation used to make and sell its product.
What is vertical integration?
This production process was often based in the home, and involved small groups creating goods from raw materials in small batches.
What is the cottage industry?
Many newly arrived immigrants to the United States lived in this type of apartment building, known for their cramped and unsafe conditions.
What are Tenements?
These rights were denied to many workers during the industrial period
What are pensions and workers compensation?
A name given to journalists who reported on corruption and inequalities caused by industrialization.
Who are the Muckrakers?
These three industries/natural resources that built the American Industrial economy
what is coal, steel, and oil (petroleum)
This place is where many immigrants to the West Coast were inspected.
What is Angel Island
(I will also accept SF Bay, California)
During the Industrial Revolution, workers formed these organizations to demand higher wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions.
What are labor unions?
a term for a company merging with or buying other companies that produce the same type of product, reducing competition in that industry.
What is horizontal integration?
This movement in England and the U.S. closed open pastures to farmers and forced many to move to cities.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
This law completely restricted the immigration of a specific nation/ethnicity
What is the Chinese exclusion act?
Pete Seeger sang this song, written by Florence Ritter in response to the Harlan Country War
This is the belief that only the strongest businesses and individuals would succeed in society, often used to justify inequality and limited government intervention.
What is Social Darwinism?