| Industrialization |
| #1 |
A system of production in which unskilled workers mass produce products in small, rapid steps |
Assembly Line |
| #2 |
What are three working conditions for men, women and children during the late 1800s? |
Low pay, long hours, dangerous, unsanitary, boring |
| #3 |
In response to poor working conditions, workers often tried to form these? |
Labor unions |
| #4 |
Most types of factory jobs that new immigrants to the U.S. were this skill level |
Unskilled |
| #5 |
What are three (of six) factors for American industrial expansion in the late 1800s? |
New technologies; new communications; new transportation; new inventions; abundant resources; large labor supply |
| Immigration 1 |
| #1 |
Millions of immigrants flooded into the U.S. during the late 1800s went here |
Cities |
| #2 |
A community within a community (such as China Town) where people of the same ethnicity lived together |
Ethnic Enclaves |
| #3 |
The name of the government act that banned the immigration of Chinese in the 1890s |
Chinese Exclusion Act |
| #4 |
Most new immigrants from Europe in the late 1800s came from these parts of Europe |
Eastern and Southern Europe |
| #5 |
What are three push factors for immigration in the late 1800s? |
Over population, natural disasters, loss of work, religious persecution |
| Immigration 2 |
| #1 |
This word means violent massacres of Jewish people |
Pogroms |
| #2 |
Chinese immigrants to the U.S. west coast often did this type of work |
Railroad building |
| #3 |
What are three pull factors for immigration in the late 1800s? |
Job opportunities, newspaper advertisements; job recruiters; religious freedom |
| #4 |
Most new immigrants from Europe in the late 1800s were these religions |
Catholic, Jewish |
| #5 |
Describe the the typical European immigrant of the late 1800s |
Young, single male, who was a farm worker; is unskilled and illiterate; does not speak English |
| The Growth of Cities |
| #1 |
The process by which an area becomes more city-like in its characteristics |
Urbanization |
| #2 |
The word for crowded, filthy, apartment buildings in cities |
Tenements |
| #3 |
True or false: America's rural population decreased at the same rate the urban population increased |
False (both populations grew, but urban populations grew faster) |
| #4 |
The population of cities grew through the moving in of these two types people |
Immigrants and migrants from American farms |
| #5 |
Describe three conditions or characteristics of the American city in the late 1800s |
Crowded, unsanitary, dangerous, diverse, industrious |
| Luck of the draw |
| #1 |
What is an alien? |
A person who is not a citizen of the United States |
| #2 |
Who is Lewis Latimer? |
An African American inventor, poet, painter who invented a better lightbulb |
| #3 |
What is one tactic used by early labor unions to achieve their objectives? |
Strikes, protests |
| #4 |
What is the main reason children worked in factories in the late 1800s? |
In order to support their families financially |
| #5 |
In response to strikes and protests, the U.S. government often did this |
Sent in the Army to break them up |
