Friday, January 11, 2013

Unit Exam Study Guide

Immigrants in the 1870's arrived via what mode of transportation
*Steamship

What technology most allowed factories to locate away from rivers?
*Electricity

The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competition. T or F?
*False

The main immigration processing station in San Francisco
*Angel Island

Tammany Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
*NYC political machine

What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.?
*Chinese Exclusion Act

These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money.
*Scabs

What would best reduce monopolies and trusts? consolidation, competition, or corruption.
*Competition

The main purpose of Americanization movement was to
*Assimilate immigrants into the dominate culture

New immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs.
*Cities

The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
*Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition

Settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers?
*Social reformers

This industrialist made vertical and horizontal intergration famous
*Andrew Carnegie

The smaller men in the room are:
*United States Senators

Many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called?
*Social Darwinism

This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscapers and new forms of constructions
*Steel

An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a
*Tenement

Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what factory?
*Meatpacking industry

The Triangel Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what?
*A shameful fire that killed 146 women

The company Credit Mobillier was famous for what?
*Steal/take money from railroads for shareholders

Upton Sinclair's book the Jungle was responsible

Partronage is: a birbe

The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: navitism

Industrial

The gentlemen's Agreement

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