People
Places
Industry
Immigration
Labor
City Livin'
100
Owner of Standard Oil, Robber Baron

John Rockefeller

100

First national park, est. 1872

Yellowstone

100

What is an Export + and Example

Something made here and sold in another place- American cars, movies, video games, culture, food, media

100

What's an example of a food brought to the US by immigrants?

Bagels, Pasta, Ramen, Hamburgers, Sausage

100

True or False, immigrants were taken advantage of by businesses and paid poorly because they often came to America with nothing and needed jobs

True 

100

Why did people move to cities?

Jobs and opportunity

200

Owner of U.S. Steel, Robber Baron

Andrew Carnegie 

200

European Immigrants came through which immigration station? What was the name and it's location

Ellis Island, New York

200

What is an Import + an example 

Something made somewhere else that's sold and shipped to the US

Japanese and German cars, videogames, technology

200

What is a Push Factor + and Example

something that makes you leave the place you are living

War, famine, crime, no jobs, no land

200

True or False, children never got hurt working in factories and were well protected

False

200

Many city dwellers lived in cramped apartments called...

Tenements 

300

Railroad Robber Baron

Cornelius Vanderbilt

300

Asian Immigrants came through which immigration station? What was the name and it's location

Angel Island, San Francisco Bay

300

The use of machines to make products is called

Mechanization

300

What is a Pull Factor + and Example

Something that draws you to move somewhere

Peace, Land, Job opportunities, The American Dream

300

Why were children the preferred workers of many factories

worked for cheaper/ less money 

300

the dirty conditions and contaminated drinking water led to an outbreak of what diease?

Cholera

400

Banking/Investment Robber Baron

JP Morgan

400

Many old immigrants were from countries like...

Ireland, the UK (England), Germany 

400

Mass Production led to products being...

cheaper to make, made faster, cheaper to buy for customers

400

Who were nativists and what did they want?

'native born' Americans whose ancestor immigrated long ago who wanted to stop the new wave of immigrants who were from different countries and of different religions from the nativists 

400

how many hours did labor unions want the work day to be?

8

400

Thanks to U.S. Steel, this was the first city in the US to build a skyscraper

Chicago

500

Inventor of Basketball

James Naismith

500

Many new immigrants came from EUROPEAN nations like...

Poland, Russia, Italy, Ukraine 

500

A business being the only one you can buy a product from is called a...

Monopoly

500

Why is America called the 'melting pot?'

American people and culture is a mixture of all the different people that have come here in search of a better life. Their food, traditions, culture, and beliefs have become part of America's culture 

500

How did Mechanization effect farms and force people to cities?

one machine could do the work of many farmhand workers and put them out of a job

500
Americanization programs wanted to __________________ immigrants into American society

Assimilate, Americanize them

600

Newspaper writer and namesake of literature award

Joseph Pulitzer

600
Many new immigrants came from ASIAN countries like...

China, Japan, India 

600

The first example of the government intervening in the economy was the...

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) of 1877

600

Many new European immigrants where followers of what religions?

Catholic Christianity or Jewish 

600

Labor unions fought mainly for what 3 improvements?

Better hours, pay, and working conditions

600

Quickly rising populations and crime led to what being commonplace in America cities?

Police

700

Scottish Enlightenment thinker, Father of Capitalism, Author of The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Adam Smith 

700
Where was Henry Ford's first assembly line?
Detroit, Michigan
700

This act/law banned monopolies

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

700

What religion(s) were many Asian immigrants who came to America?

Hindus from India or Buddhists from China and Japan

700

What event resulted in the demise (end) of the Knights of Labor

Haymarket Riot Bombing 

700

A large chunk of this city burned in 1871 when, allegedly, a cow knocked over a lamp in a barn

Chicago