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Industrialization
Immigration
Cities
Imperialism
WWI
100

Name two industries that underwent major changes due to industrialization.

Steel

Oil

Agriculture

Mining

Factory Work

Communication

Electricity

Railroad

100

What are push and pull factors?

Push Factors: bad things in your home country encouraging you to leave


Pull Factors: good things in a foreign country that encourage you to move there.

100

Name one cause of cities growing.

Immigration, Growth of the railroad, Farming Mechanization, Racial discrimination in the South

100
What is imperialism?
When big, strong nations take over smaller, weaker nations for their natural resources.
100
What event started WWI?
Serbian terrorist assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinans of Austria.
200

List one fact about the Central Pacific Railroad Company.

Began in Sacramento, CA

Chinese immigrants as workers

Sierra Nevada Mountains are the biggest obstacle

Used Nitroglycerin to blast through mountains to make tunnels.

200

Name the two immigration processing centers in the U.S?

Ellis Island and Angel Island

200

Name one way that city governments were corrupt.

Political Machines, taking bribes, paying for votes, spoils system, graft-using political authority for personal gain.

200
What country did the Spanish-American War take place in?
Cuba
200
Name two reasons that the U.S. joins WWI.
Lusitania sinks and Zimmerman Telegram
300

Name one agricultural innovation/machine that reduces the need for farm laborers.

Mechanical Reaper

Steel Plow

Combine

Tractors

300

Name three challenges faced by immigrants arriving to the United States.

Tenement housing, long work hours, little pay, child labor, Immigration laws, language barriers, religious discrimination, factory work, workplace discrimination, etc.

300
What expensive ingredient was needed for the cities to expand upward?
steel
300

What two places does the U.S. practice imperialism to gain military bases.

Hawaii- Pearl Harbor

Cuba- Guantanamo Bay

300
What organization did the Treaty of Versailles establish?
League of Nations
400

Name the two steel making methods.

Bessemer Process and Open Hearth Method

400

Name one reason that Asian immigrants choose to immigrate to the United States.

Gold Rush and work on the Transcontinental Railroad

400

What movement becomes a political party and is formed by farmers?

Populist Party

Populism Movement

400
What is the Open-Door Policy?

Promotes free trade with China, preventing European imperialism.

400

Name 3 new WWI weapons.

Trench Warfare, Machine Gun, Artillery, Tank, Airplanes, Chemical Weapons

500

Explain two negative effect of industrialization.

Environmental Pollution:

growing cities use more coal (smoke in the air)

sewage in water supply

Construction of railroad creates violent altercations with Native Americans

Poor working conditions and few rights for workers.

Growing cities have increases rates of crime and diseases.

500

What is the process called to become a citizen?

Naturalization

500

How does Upton Sinclair bring change to cities?

He is a muckraker. Writes the Jungle about the meatpacking industry.

500
Name the 5 reasons that the U.S. begins practicing imperialism.
National Economy, Religion, The "Frontier" Thesis, Jingoism, Militarism
500

Who was blamed for WWI and how were they punished?

Germany: loses land, pays reparations, gives up military