Immigration and Industrialization Vocabulary Flashcards
(27 cards)
Laissez Faire Goverment
Is a government that is “Hands off” towards business, society regulations and law making.
The Second Industrial Revelation
A period of rapid growth in industry in the late 1800s.
Moving Assembly Line
An innovation of Henry Ford’s that dramatically reduced the cost of production by mass producing items on conveyor belt.
Interchangeable Parts
A process developed by Eli Whitney that called for making each part the exact same way (revolutionary and paves the way to the moving assembly line)
Bessemer Process
The process of turning iron ore into steel (Brought to this country by Andrew Carnegie- AKA owner of Carnige steel.
Child Labor in the Workforce
When children went to work instead of school. Often, child laborists were treated worse than adults and grew up with little skill and were uneducated.
Captain of Industry
A leader of his industry during the Gilded Age who ran his business fairly by paying his workers well and having a decent conditions in the workspace.
Robber Baron
A leader of his industry during the Gilded Age who concentrated on his own wealth while trying to eliminate all competition to his corporation.
Philanthropist
A very wealthy individual who donates significant amounts of his or her fortune to various charities and organizations.
Monopoly
The complete control of a certain industry and when there is no competition to the company or owner.
3 issues of industrialization- Bad working conditions, poor wages, and long hours.
What factory workers (mostly immigrants) experienced in American Business.
The second wave of immigration notes- Heavy population from…
Russia, Italy, German, some from Ireland, Norway, Austria-Hungary
Scarcity
When there is not enough of something that is needed to survive- ex. Food, clean water.
Immigrant
A person who moves to another country.
Emigrant
A person that leaves their own country to settle in another.
Urbanization
The process of growing an area with more population, business, public services and transportation.
Ghetto
Ethnic Neighborhood
Assimilation
The ability for an immigrant to enter into a new society and begin to blend in with other taking on new cultures and a new way of life.
Nativism
The belief that a person is opposed to immigration and fears immigrants will take away jobs.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that your country and nationality is better than others.
Steerage
the area on a ship where the poor immigrants bought tickets to America.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A law passed by Congress that bans Chinese from immigrating to the US for 10 years.
Poverty
Living in a state of being very poor without proper nutrition, health care and with little to no way of escaping your conditions.
Salad Bowl Theory of immigration
Mix your ingredients then you can still take out something if it isn’t your.
