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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