The New American Immigrants

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1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization?
B. Native-born Americans wanted the immigrants to practice their customs

2. What were cities most like for the new immigrants coming to America?
A. Clean and welcoming

3. What would best describe the cities to a new immigrant?
B. Plenty of police harassing new immigrants

4. Why did immigrants move to the cities in the first place?
D. A & B only

5. People moved from the farms to the cities because?
B. Farming technology improved

Labor Unions Emerge

1. In it's entirety, labor unions were (good or bad) and why?

Based upon what I have read, labor unions were good for employees because they could demand for their rights like to have less working hours and not to get exploited.

2. Describe the sweatshop and how 146 women died in a fire, and how it could have been prevented.

The Triangle Shirtwaist factory was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because fire spread through the oil-soaked machines and piles of cloth. These deaths could have been prevented if the owner would had unlock the other doors so that the employees could escape or have the sprinkler system so that the fire could be put out.

3. What is a scab and why would unionized workers not like scabs?

Monopolists did not want unions because the owner would have to put his prices up and customers wouldn't want that . Union members did not like scabs because scabs were hired to the replace workers that are in the Union.

4. Describe the type of people who formed the IWW Union. What does IWW mean?

Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because .

Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

1. What are three pieces of information you choose? Why did you choose the three?

*This cartoon signifies the cruel treatment by the wealthy industrialists toward their workers.
*Laborers were forced to work fourteen to sixteen hour work days in order to fulfill their quota, they worked in unsafe conditions.
*The workers were overworked and underpaid.

I choose these three pieces of information because this is how labor workers were treated by wealthy industrialists and how they work in factories.

2. Were labor unions necessary? Why?

Labor unions are necessary because they could protest for their rights like for better working conditions, higher wages, and shorter work days.

3. Did the government help make monopolies? How?



4. How did money in politics contribute to this cartoon? How has this changed?

Are The Old Bosses Still in Charge?

1. What is the setting for the cartoon? 

The setting of this cartoon is in the U.S. Senate.

2. What entrance is open, and what entrance is closed?

The entrance of the monopolist's is open while the people's the entrance is closed.

3. Who do you think the large men at the back of the room represent?

The large men in the back of the room are the rich men that own big corporations.

4. Why would the large men be in the room in the first place?

To see if senate people are going to change the law that affects their business so that they would help the rich men.

Rise of Industry & Monopolies

1. What were the three main causes of industrial growth in America?

• The three main causes of industrial growth in America is the wealth of natural resources, government support for business, and provided both cheap labor and markets for new products.

2. Trusts and Monopolies during America's early industrial age created corporations to make more money than ever by getting rid of the government law's that would get in the way of there Trusts and Monopolies by paying a person of the Senate to make them get reelected but in exchange they want them to make the laws that affect them to make them weak.