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Ch. 4 Review
Immigration & Labor Movements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was significant about the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911? | it showed that worker safety was a problem |
| Name three factors that led to the growth of cities in the late 1800s: | (1) the growth of industry; (2) the flow of millions of immigrants after the Civil War; (3) the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities between 1890 and 1920 |
| Poor families in cities lived mostly in ______________________. | tenements |
| Those immigrants who had come AFTER the 1880s were called | “new” immigrants |
| Most of the new immigrants were from __________________________________. | southern and eastern Europe |
| Immigrants usually lived in neighborhoods with people from their own country called _____________. | ghettos |
| Immigrants entering the east coast came through __________ Island, while those coming into the west coast came through ________ Island. | Ellis; Angel |
| Name three acts that limited immigration into the United States: | (1) Chinese Exclusion Act; (2) Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907; (3) 1921 Quota System |
| The first successful labor union was the __________________________________________ . | Knights of Labor |
| True or False: The Homestead Strike helped union members | False |
| True or False: The Pullman Strike helped union members | False |
| True or False: The actions of the federal government during the Pullman Strike showed that it favored big business over the needs of poor workers | True |
| ____________ founded the American Federation of Labor. | Samuel Gompers |
| __________________worked for laws to end child labor and helped miners join unions. | Mary Harris “Mother” Jones |
| _____________________ was a leader of the American Railway Union and a socialist who ran for president. | Eugene V. Debs |
| ______________________ was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard and joined with others to start the NAACP. | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| _____________ was a Jewish American who wrote a famous poem about the Statue of Liberty that was placed at the statue’s base. | Emma Lazarus |
| ____________________ are workers who have few skills. | unskilled labor |
| A _______________________ is an apartment building that is usually run-down and crowded, and which has unhealthy living conditions. | tenement |
| An ____________________ is an order given by a court that forbids a person from doing something. | injunction |
| The ____________ system limited the number of immigrants from different countries who could move to the United States. | quota |
| _______________ bargaining is a process that helps two groups come to an agreement; commonly used between workers and employers. | Collective |
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