Industrialization
What were government permits that protected the inventions of inventors?
Patents
What is the practice of business hiring young people because it is cheaper?
Child Labor
What was a important symbol of freedom did immigrants see when arriving in New York Harbor?
Statue of Liberty
Who took over the US steel industry by owning coal and iron ore mines?
Andrew Carnegie
Who successfully developed the mass-produced automobile using assembly lines?
Henry Ford
Who created a monopoly of the oil industry by buying out all competition?
John D Rockefeller
What were overcrowded buildings where one family shared a 1 room apartments?
Tenements
What group of people were excluded from immigrating to the United States due to prejudice?
Chinese
What is a group of workers who joined together to negotiate for better pay and working conditions?
Labor Union
When people started working in factories and living in cities during the late 1800s it is called ____________
Industrialization
What invention made communication instantaneous through electronic signals?
Telegraph/Telephone
What tragic factory fire forced business to pay more attention to worker safety?
Triangle Shirt Factory
What was the immigration center for immigrants coming from Asia?
Angel Island
What is the process of immigrants adopting the customs and language of the United States?
Assimilation/Americanization
Where did most immigrants come from arriving in Ellis Island/New York City?
Europe
What new material developed made building skyscrapers and railroads possible?
Steel
To refuse to work in order to force business to accept better pay and working conditions is called a _______
Strike
What part of the ship did poor immigrants have to be in?
Steerage
How did immigrants learn about the new opportunities in America?
What is the idea that native born Americans deserve more rights and privileges than immigrans?
Nativism
What is the economic system in which business and property is privately owned to make profit?
Capitalism
.What is the belief that the government should own the factories for the benefit of the workers?
Socialism
To prevent diseases from entering the country, the United States forced immigrants to have __________
Medical Examinations
What is the breaking up of tasks in a factory so one worker did just one job over and over?
Division of Labor
What was the new group/class of people who earned hourly wages and did not own property?
Working Class