Industrialist (business owner), who built a steel monopoly. Famous for donating money to charity.

A way to quickly put a product together where each worker does one part.

A business owner who uses their money to help others and introduce new technology into a business.

When children worked in factories.

A building in a city where goods are made by machines for a low cost.

A time when industries and cities grew causing business owners to become very rich while workers were very poor.

The growth of business through the use of new technologies.

Making a large amount of a good quickly and cheaply using a factory.

One one company controls all or almost all of one type of business by putting other companies out of business.

A business owner who gains money by treating their workers badly, bribing government officials, and putting other companies out of business.

A business owner famous for creating an oil monopoly.

Donating money to help society.

A crowded one room apartment shared by multiple families.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

A fire that caused the death of 146 workers. Workers were unable to escape because the factory owners did not follow any safety procedures.

Jobs that do not require an education or specific skill.

The movement of people from the country to the city.

A business owner famous for building Grand Central Station and a railroad monopoly.

Immigration station off of the coast of California where Asian Immigrants entered the U.S.

Chinese Exclusion Act

A law that prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.

Immigration station off of the coast of New York where European Immigrants entered the U.S.

When there is not enough food and people begin to starve.

Gentleman’s Agreement

An agreement between the U.S. and Japan that Japan would stop Japanese immigrants from coming to the U.S.

The place an immigrant came from.

A person who leaves their home country to move to a new country.

A person who does not want immigrants to enter their country because of their different cultural backgrounds.

The idea that immigrants are bad for a country.

Judging a group of people based on their race, religion, home country, or skin color and treating them badly.

Bad things in a person’s home country that make them want to leave. (famine, poverty, war, discrimination)

Good things in a different country that make a person want to move there. (factory jobs, food, safety, education)

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8th Grade

Question	Answer
Agriculture	Farming
Andrew Carnegie	Industrialist (business owner), who built a steel monopoly. Famous for donating money to charity.
Assembly Line	A way to quickly put a product together where each worker does one part.
Captain of Industry	A business owner who uses their money to help others and introduce new technology into a business.
Child Labor	When children worked in factories.
Factory	A building in a city where goods are made by machines for a low cost.
Gilded Age	A time when industries and cities grew causing business owners to become very rich while workers were very poor.
Industrialization	The growth of business through the use of new technologies.
Labor/ Laborers	Work/ Workers
Mass Production	Making a large amount of a good quickly and cheaply using a factory.
Monopoly/ Trust	One one company controls all or almost all of one type of business by putting other companies out of business.
J.P. Morgan	A very wealthy banker.
Robber Baron	A business owner who gains money by treating their workers badly, bribing government officials, and putting other companies out of business.
John D. Rockefeller	A business owner famous for creating an oil monopoly.
Philanthropy	Donating money to help society.
Tenement	A crowded one room apartment shared by multiple families.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire	A fire that caused the death of 146 workers. Workers were unable to escape because the factory owners did not follow any safety procedures.
Unskilled Labor	Jobs that do not require an education or specific skill.
Urban	City
Urbanization	The movement of people from the country to the city.
Cornelius Vanderbilt	A business owner famous for building Grand Central Station and a railroad monopoly.
Angel Island	Immigration station off of the coast of California where Asian Immigrants entered the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act	A law that prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.
Ellis Island	Immigration station off of the coast of New York where European Immigrants entered the U.S.
Famine	When there is not enough food and people begin to starve.
Gentleman’s Agreement	An agreement between the U.S. and Japan that Japan would stop Japanese immigrants from coming to the U.S.
Home Country	The place an immigrant came from.
Immigrant	A person who leaves their home country to move to a new country.
Nativist	A person who does not want immigrants to enter their country because of their different cultural backgrounds.
Nativism	The idea that immigrants are bad for a country.
Prejudice	Judging a group of people based on their race, religion, home country, or skin color and treating them badly.
Push Factor	Bad things in a person’s home country that make them want to leave. (famine, poverty, war, discrimination)
Pull Factor	Good things in a different country that make a person want to move there. (factory jobs, food, safety, education)

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