Immigration
The process of moving to another country permanently to take up residence.
What is Immigration?
Entrepreneurs during the Gilded Age supported what type of economic system.
What is Capitalism?
The process of moving from rural to urban areas.
What is Urbanization?
"No minimum wage, no limit on workday hours, no safety standards in factories or mines, and no laws mandating that children go to school rather than to work" are all considered effects of _______________
What is capitalism?
Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.
What is Labor Unions?
An immigration station that opened in 1892, located at the mouth of the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. It closed in 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
Entrepreneurs who were seen as philanthropist, innovative, and contributed positively to the American economy were known as?
What is a Captain of Industry?
As urbanization continued to spread what do we see start to happen between the rich and the wealthy?
What is separation? (or Separation of Classes)
The process of replacing human or animal labor with machine labor.
What is Mechanization?
A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions.
What is Sweatshops
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Nativism
Monopolistic practice where a single company controls every step of the process, from the raw materials to distribution.
What is Vertical Integration?
Single family dwellings divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate the new growth of population in the United States. They were often poorly lit, cramped, and lacked plumbing and good ventilation
What is tenement apartments?
Cornelius Vanderbilt was able to create a ___________ on the railroad industry.
What is a Monopoly?
During the Gilded Age in the United States over 2 million _______________ joined the labor force.
What is Children?
An immigration station that opened on the San Francisco Bay located in California that only saw the influx of Asian Immigrants
What is Angel Island?
What are the names of the two entrepreneurs that ran their business using horizontal and vertical integration? (match each practice to the correct entrepreneur)
What is Andrew Carnegie (vertical integration)/John D. Rockefeller (horizontal Integration)
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison are responsible for inventing which technological innovations.
What is the telephone and electricity (light bulb)?
Deforestation, Air Pollution, Water Pollution are all considered what type of effects of Industrialization/Urbanization?
What is Environmental?
During the Gilded Age most people worked _________ hours for __________ wages
What is long hours; low wages
Angel Island was mainly used to enforce what piece of legislation.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
Match each of the following entrepreneurs to there correct industry.
JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, & John D. Rockefeller
JP Morgan (Banking), Andrew Carnegie (Steel), Cornelius Vanderbilt (Railroads), John D. Rockefeller (Oil)
The largest internal migrations in the history of the United States, where we see millions of African Americans moved from rural to urban centers and from southeastern states to the north and west.
What is the Great Migration?
Knowing the effects of capitalism, what allowed business owners to pay their workers low wages, and have low quality factor conditions.
What is the government not being able to have any influence in business owned privately? (Policy Laissez Faire)
What incident is remembered as one of the most tragic incidents during the Industrial Revolution as the deaths that took place were largely preventable
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?