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USHistory92613
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Belief or attitude that native people should be preferred over immigrants | Nativism |
| Large run down apartment building that people called home | Tenements |
| What do anarchists believe? | They don't believe in the government |
| One main way people could get into the United States even with the Chinese Exclusion Act? | Family ties within the United States |
| What are scabs? | People who replace the workers that go on strike |
| Philanthropy | Emphasis on charity and the donation of money to help humanity |
| Which person used horizontal consolidation? | Rockefeller |
| Which person used vertical consolidation? | Carnegie |
| What did settlement houses do? | Places for the less fortunate to go; it was like a homeless shelter |
| Main point of entry for immigrants on the east side of the United States | Ellis Island |
| Why specifically was the Chinese Exclusion Act written? | Because jobs were being taken away from the Chinese due to their race |
| What did the Bessemer process do? | Made the manufacturing of steel cheaper and easier |
| Which person had a rages to riches story or started out poor? | Carnegie |
| Angel Island is located off the coast of what state? | California |
| Immigrants entering through the east coasts wwent through three broad tests, what were they? | Physical health test, mental test, background/legal check |
| Ghetto | Poor area where a specific race lives within that area |
| Three end results that could happen to an immigrant when they were processed on Ellis or Angel Island | Deported, become an American citizen, or were held there |
| The invention of barbed wire contributed to the lessened or end of what? | Ranching |
| What economic group lives in suburbs? | The wealthy upper class |
| Who used a monopoly to get ahead in life? | Rockefeller |
| In United States history terms, what is an alien? | An illegal/foreign immigrant |
| Monopoly | Complete control of a product or service |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Law passed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country |
| Social Darwinism | Theory, derived from Darwin's theory of natural selection, that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people's pursuit of success |
| Interchangeable parts | A system of manufacturing in which all parts are made to an exact standard for easy mass-assembly |
| Suburbs | Residential communities surrounding a city |
| Plessy Vs. Ferguson | 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities were equal for both races |
| Assimilation | Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture |
| Homestead Act | 1862 law that offered 160 acres of western land to settlers |
| Cartel | Loose association of businesses that make the same product |
| Bonanza Farms | Farms controlled by a large business and managed by professionals |
| Segregation | Forced separation |
| Anarchists | Radicals who violently oppose all government |
| Dry farming | Techniques used to raise crops in areas that receive little rain |
| Vaudeville | Variety show that featured acts such as comic sketches and song-and-dance routines, popular in the late 1800's and early 1900's |
| Strikes | Work stoppages intended to force an employer to meet certain demands, as for higher wages or better working conditions |
| Patent | A license to make, use, or sell an invention |
| Piecework | System in which workers are paid not by the hour but by what they produce |
| Labor Unions | Organizations of workers formed to protect the interest of its members |
| Reservation | Area that federal government set aside for Native Americans who had lost their homelands |
| Prejudice/Racism that existed during this birth of modern America | The Chinese didn't get many jobs because people were racist against them. |
| What was city life like in that late 1800's and early 1900's? | There were ghettos and people lived in tenements if they were a specific race other than White. They were discriminated against because of their race and lived in poorer living conditions. |
| What did factory work entail in the late 1800's and early 1900's? | Long work hours, no one was regulating working conditions and making sure everything was safe. |
| Explain specific ways both Carnegie and Rockefeller impacted early America. | Rockefeller started the standard oil company which is still used today. Carnegie invested in the steel company and became rich off of that. |
| Compare and contrast Angel Island and Ellis Island | Angel Island had a lot longer of a waiting time, was more racist towards the Chinese immigrants, etc. Ellis Island had a waiting time but was much shorter, had tests necessary to get into the U.S. but weren't that rude to others while doing this process |
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