Category 1
What is an Investment Capital?
The portion of financial resources businesses have available for trading.
What where slums?
Densly populated areas of cities with tenements and lack of basic services.
What was Collective Bargaining?
A process through which labor unions negotiated with employers to establish employment terms.
What is an immigrant?
Someone who moves somewhere out of their country permanently
What was the Gilded Age?
A time when business/economy boomed in America.
What is a Patent?
Something that protects someones invention from getting coppied.
What where tenements?
Rundown, overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe appartments.
What was the Keating-Owens Act?
Made in 1916 aimed to reduce child labor by limiting hours they could work.
What was Ellis Island?
Island people mainly from Europe came through to migrate.
What are government grants?
money issued by the government in hopes to support the states with projects.
What were Robber Barons?
Successful industrialists whose business practices where often considered ruthless or unethical
What was Progressivism?
Reform movements that sought to raise living standards and correct wrongs in American Society.
What was the Suffrage Movement?
Decades long campaign to win the right for women to vote.
What was Angel Island?
An island people migrated through mainly from Asia.
What is Xenophobia?
Fear of those/things that are different.
What was "The Jungle"
A book about the horrors of the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
What were Reservations?
Places of land the government pushed Native Americans onto.
What is the 19th ammendment?
Women's right to vote
What were ethnic enclaves?
Neighborhoods where large groups of immigrants moved to be with others from their home country.
What is Urbanization?
Creating cities and places increasing in population.
Who wrote "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair a muckracker
What is Assimilation
The US policy to "civilize" Native Americans by stripping them of their culture and "Americanizing" them
What is a Migrant?
Someone who moves around the same country and sometimes for a short time period.
What are Muckrakers?
Writers and Journalists who exposed corruption in American society.
What is Industrialization?
the developement in countries