Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization

Question 1

transforming the economy from agriculture to manufacturing

Answer 1

Industrialization

Question 2

moving to a new country with the intention of struggling and living there

Answer 2

Immigration

Question 3

the growth of cities

Answer 3

Urbanization

Question 4

give up beliefs and become part of another culture

Answer 4

Assimilation/Americanization

Question 5

giving of government jobs to people who had helped a canidate get elected

Answer 5

Patronage

Question 6

federal gov, jobs awarded on the basis of merit and that gov. employees be selected through competitive exams

Answer 6

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 7

offered services to votes and businesses in exchange for political or financial support

Answer 7

Political Machine

Question 8

overcrowded and unsanitary multifamily urban dwelling

Answer 8

Tenement Housing

Question 9

community centers in slums that provided assistance to immigrants and the needy

Answer 9

Settlement House

Question 10

favoring the interests of native-born over foreign-born people

Answer 10

Nativism

Question 11

when the gov. gives an inventor the rights to develop, use, and sell an invention

Answer 11

Patent

Question 12

contract between a worker and an employer in which the worker agrees not to remain in or join a Union

Answer 12

Yellow-dog contract

Question 13

a mixture of people of different cultures and races blended together and abandoned their Native language and customs

Answer 13

“melting pot”

Question 14

processed European immigrants in the New York Harbour

Answer 14

Ellis Island

Question 15

processed Asian immigrants in San Francisco Bay

Answer 15

Angel island

Question 16

suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years

Answer 16

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 17

an organization of workers who came together to achieve common goals

Answer 17

Labor Unions

Question 18

What were labor unions common strategies?

Answer 18

• Higher wages
• Better working conditions
• Job security

Question 19

important strike from Knights of Labor in Chicago in 1886; 7 people arrested

Answer 19

Haymarket Riot

Question 20

Pullman cart works strike and stops railroads from functioning in the Midwest

Answer 20

Pullman Strike

Question 21

Railroad Industry

Answer 21

Vanderbilt & Carnegie

Question 22

Steel Industry

Answer 22

Carnegie & Morgan

Question 23

Oil

Answer 23

Rockefeller

Question 24

light bulb

Answer 24

Thomas Edison

Question 25

telephone

Answer 25

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 26

taking over suppliers, distributors, and transportation

Answer 26

Vertical Integration

Question 27

merging of similar companies

Answer 27

Horizontal Integration

Question 28

a process for purifying iron resulting in strong, but lightweight steel

Answer 28

Bessemer process

Question 29

What industry does the Bessemer process affect?

Answer 29

Steel Industry

Question 30

an important settlement House that gave assistance to needy immigrants

Answer 30

Hull House

Question 31

Who created the Hull House?

Answer 31

Jane Addams

Question 32

the production of goods and services within an economy

Answer 32

industry

Question 33

risk-taking business person

Answer 33

entreprenuar

Question 34

took advantage of opportunities and made fortunes off of growing industries

Answer 34

Robber-barons

Question 35

taxes that make impacted goods cost more than those made locally

Answer 35

Protective Tariff

Question 36

a policy which allowed businesses to operate under minimal gov. regulation

Answer 36

Lissez faire

Question 37

when the gov, gives an inventor the rights to develop, use, and sell an invention

Answer 37

Patent

Question 38

organized skilled workers into Unions

Answer 38

American Federation of Labor

Question 39

Union leaders negotiated issues with mangement

Answer 39

Collective Bargaining

Question 40

workers name goes on a list and businesses refuse to hire you

Answer 40

blacklisting

Question 41

1st national strike; stops railroads across the nation; fails

Answer 41

The Great railroad Strike

Question 42

secret labor union that works to fix problems by using violence

Answer 42

Knights of Labor

Question 43

when pressure, law, and prejudice prevent from renting elsewhere

Answer 43

Ghettos

Question 44

300 lb man who was the political boss at Tammany Hall

Answer 44

Boss Tweed

Question 45

Which state produced the most steel?

Answer 45

Pennsylvania