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Industrialization
5.3-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Child factory workers were stopped by which political movement? | Progressives |
| Instead of wanting children to work in factories, where did the Progressives want children to go? | to school |
| Which era, or time period, is most associated with the efforts to end child labor in the United States? | early 1900s |
| The Industrial Revolution had a huge impact on the workplace. In an effort to create cheap goods, laborers often dealt with ___. | poor working conditions |
| When workers became unhappy with their working conditions, they organized __________ to fight to improve the working conditions. | labor unions |
| Which era, or time period, is credited with causing such changes as improving workplace conditions, food safety, housing standards, and the passage of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Amendments? | The Progressive Era |
| What was an outcome of the Industrial Revolution? | rise of monopoloies |
| Laws regulating child labor in South Carolina are most associated with what 20th century historic period? | Progressive |
| What resulted from the advances in transportation and industry that occurred in America between the end of the Civil War and 1900? | Thousands of people migrated from rural areas to Northern cities like New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. |
| Why did people leave farms to work in Northern cities? | Northern cities had resources and transportation which allowed them to become prime locations for factories. The workers left the farms to work in the factories. |
| Which group was MOST concerned with helping improve the dangerous working conditions in early-20th century industry? | Progressives |
| What were the Populists concerned with? | agricultural or farming issues |
| Why did the South continue to trail the north in economically and in the number of factories located there? | The South lacked capital and an educated labor force because most of their efforts were put towards rebuilding cities after the Civil War. |
| How did American industrial leaders earn great wealth during the late 1800s? | by creating monopolies and establishing trusts |
| American Federation of Labor | This was a progressive movement organization founded in 1886 working for higher wages, job security, and better working conditions for all employees. |
| Food and Drug Administration | This was one of the progressive laws that would oversee the safety of food and drug production |
| Populism | a political party that worked to support the rights of laborers and farmers |
| Agrarian | people make their money by farming |
| Temperance Movement | also called Prohibition when America was against drinking and making alcohol |
| Progressive Movement | This was a middle class movement that promoted the idea that society's problems could be solved by the passage of laws |
| Gilded Age | from about 1877 to 1893 in America when the rich lived a fancy lifestyle and the workers worked to support them. |
| Robber Baron | a buisnessman who had great wealth and influence |
| Natural resource | things found in nature that people can use |
| Human resources | people who work to produce goods and services |
| Capital resources | tools and machines that companies use to produce goods and services |
| Andrew Carnegie | He was a Scottish immigrant who contributed entrepreneurial skills to the growth of our nation primarily through the steel industry. |
| Monopoly | to completely control a business or industry |
| Free Enterprise | an economic system in which people are free to start their own businesses and own their own property |
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