Immigration
After the 1880s, this was a major new source of labor for American factories.
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
As cities grew, buildings became taller and whole families crowded into these single-room apartment buildings to live.
tenements
The name by which American Indians are also known.
Native Americans
Identify two working conditions that labor unions opposed between 1870 and 1900 industrialization in America.
What are:
-long hours
-low pay
-no job security
-hazardous working conditions
-little interest in improving safety
-child labor
The movement where about 2 million African Americans moved from the South to the Northeast and Midwest.
The Great Migration
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, large numbers of immigrants were admitted to the U.S. primarily because of the economy's need for more...
Unskilled factory workers
Cities lacked to ability to deliver increased ______ __________ like hospitals, police forces, schools, fire departments, street cleaning, and garbage collection.
Public Services
This disease, along with an advancing line of settlement, severely reduced the population of Native Americans and pushed them westward.
smallpox
What major population trend occurred in the U.S. during the industrial expansion of the late 19th century?
The size and number of cities increased dramatically as people moved to the cities in search of work.
The great awakening of the African American culture in areas such as music and the arts (dance and visual) was known as the...
The Harlem Renaissance
Describe one way in which immigration in the late 1800s changed American lifestyles.
What is
People moved to the cities to find jobs
Immigrant children eventually became assimilated
America was seen as a melting pot
Unskilled workers worked for long hours and low pay
People lived in ghettos and became isolated from mainstream American life
Horse-drawn coaches and later electric trolleys were needed to transport workers to their jobs. To eliminate the pollution created from these, New York City build this in 1900.
A subway system
This series of wars pitted settlers and the U.S. troops against Native Americans.
Indian Wars
Name the business entity that is chartered by a state, sells shares in itself to raise capital and is recognized in law as a separate "person."
A corporation
This city was located in upper Manhattan and was a place where about 200,000 African Americans lived together in vibrant communities of the 1920s.
Harlem
Before 1880, most immigrants came from here.
Northern Europe (especially Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany)
Soon, ___________ began to emerge around a central core of cities around which a growing middle class moved to and commuted between residential areas and city centers for business and recreation.
suburbs
This was the policy that the federal government followed in regard to Native American Indians in an effort to resolve conflicts with settlers moving west in the 1870s.
Force them to live on government reservations further West
In the second half of the 1800s, this development led to the development of the use of mass production, the formation of corporations, and an increase in factory workers.
The growth of industrialization
African Americans responded to the situation of escaping oppressive economic conditions in the South by doing this.
Moved to Northern cities
Starting in the 1880s, transportation improvements made it possible for "new immigrants" to come to America from
Southern and Eastern Europe (especially Poland, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Greece, and Russia)
Identify four reasons why immigrants came to America.
What are:
escape oppression
escape poverty
escape religious discrimination
escape ethnic persecution
had ties to family members in America already
had a belief that America had unbounded opportunities
As the federal government promised food, blankets, and seeds, this policy clashed with tribal customs since Native Americans were traditionally this.
hunters
Name one technological innovation that affected agricultural production in the late 1800s and how it affected agricultural production.
What is:
-The reaper: horse-drawn machine used to harvest grain. Allowed farmers to harvest more crops
-steam power: helped power machinery that reduced the amount of human labor needed to produce and harvest more crops.
The economic motivations for migration were a combination of the desire to escape these conditions
Long hours and low pay