Industrialization
First industry to use machines instead of making goods by hand.
What is the textile industry?
At least 3 things people living in cities struggled with.
What is..
Poverty/low wages
unsanitary/poor living conditions
disease
crime?
Nelda Boren immigrated to the United States in 1876. In her home country, political leaders were becoming more and more oppressive. There was constant conflict and her family feared for the future with such political instability. Identify her home country & push/pull factors that most likely influenced Nelda's decision.
What is Germany and the push factors is the political unrest?
Define a robber baron
What is a leader of a business that is ruthless, exploitative, and builds their wealth at the expense of others?
Define canal.
What is a man-made waterway?
How steam revolutionized the way we move goods and people.
What is harnessing the power of steam helped to create steam powered engines, these engines were put into boats and trains to make steam powered methods of transportation? What is the engine allowed for faster, more controlled, and more predictable travel?
The name of the law requiring landlords to improve the conditions of the housing they rented to residents of NYC.
What is the Tenement House Act of 1901?
Concerns held by the US government and citizens about a large influx of immigrants.
What is spread of disease/new diseases introduced? What is creating competition for already low paying jobs?
Define philanthropy and provide an example of an act that would be philanthropic.
What is doing good for others, usually by donating money to a cause? An example of a philanthropic act would be McKenzie Bezos donating millions to the Girl Scouts of America?
Differentiate immigration and migration.
What is immigration is moving from one country to another and migration is moving within the same country?
This invention allowed for businesses to grow and spread by making long-distance communication possible.
What is the telegraph?
What is being kidnapped and sold back into slavery?
What is in the 1800-1900s, German immigrants moved to the midwestern cities to buy cheap land to farm and start homesteads instead of settling in cities for factory jobs? What is they wrote to their home country and encouraged others to join them in their new home?
The following person championed the $5 day and made it affordable for all families to eventually own a car. The way they achieved this accomplishment is by ______________________________.
Who is Henry Ford? What is the assembly line?
Tenement housing.
What is low quality, dirty/unsafe apartments that are divided to house multiple groups instead of 1 family?
Name 4 inventions that made producing goods faster, easier, cheaper, and more efficient.
What is the cotton gin, steam engine, spinning jenny, assembly line, telegraph, canal?
The factors that contributed to the construction of factories in the 1800s.
What is the availability of large supply of workers due to immigration? What is the demand for mass produced goods?
Where most immigrants settled in cities.
What are ethnic ghettos? or ghettos?
The following robber barons were in the transportation industry. (3)
Who is Andrew Carnegie & Henry Clay Frick (steel for railroads) Henry Ford, and Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Define monopoly.
What is a business that controls the market for a good or service by eliminating competition? What is leaving consumers with only one choice for a good or service? What is controlling the price and availability of goods?
Explain the connection between the cotton gin and the rise of slavery in the US.
What is answers vary?
Explain how Urbanization is both a cause and effect of immigration and industrialization.
What is answers vary? What is teacher's discretion?
The beliefs of the Know-Nothing Party and Nativists.
What is that immigrants should have less rights than long-time citizens? What is that immigrants should not be allowed to hold any public office (mayor, city council)? What is the belief that they were superior to immigrants?
POLITICAL CARTOON ANALYSIS - Explain what is being shown.
What is answers vary?
moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity
What is ethics/ethical?