Immigration
This metaphor describes America as a place where many cultures blend together.
What is the melting pot
Factories often forced workers to endure these long hours and dangerous conditions.
What were harsh factory conditions?
This economic system is based on private ownership and competition for profit.
What is capitalism?
This term refers to trickery or deception in politics.
What is chicanery?
Many farmers struggled because crop prices were too this.
What is low?
Many Irish imigrants came to America after this devastating food shortage in the 1840s.
What was the Irish Potato Famine?
These small factories often had unsafe conditions and extremely low pay.
What is a sweatshop?
This thinker believed cooperation and competition help meet people’s needs.
Who was Adam Smith?
These organizations often controlled city politics by trading favors for votes.
What are political machines?
This movement supported farmers and workers in the late 1800s.
What is Populism?
Between 1880 and 1920, many immigrants came from these regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
In the late 1800s many children worked in these places instead of going to school.
What are factories or mines?
This system allows businesses to operate with little government interference.
What is free enterprise?
This act banned Chinese immigrants from entering the United States in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Populist farmers wanted the government to increase this by printing more money.
What is inflation?
This famous statue welcomed immigrants arriving in New York Harbor.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This 1938 law helped limit child labor in the United States.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
When one company controls an entire industry, it is called this.
What is a monopoly?
This violent labor protest in Chicago occurred in 1886.
What is the Haymarket Riot (Haymarket Square)?
Farmers often wanted to move away from strict reliance on this metal for money.
What is the gold standard?
Many Jewish immigrants came to the United States to escape this type of persecution in Europe.
What is religious persecution?
These organizations formed to help workers fight for better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This 1890 law made monopolies illegal in the United States.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Political machines were often known for this illegal activity involving money and power.
What is corruption?
This type of lifestyle relates to farming and rural life.
What is agrarian?