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immigration life
immagration and herban life
Question | Answer |
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Push and pull factors of immigrants. | Push:The lack of food, The lack of family,The lack of religious freedom Pull:Religious freedom, Job openings |
Program | organized massacre of a particular ethnic group |
Ghettos and tenements | Ghetto- a part of a city, a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups Tenement- a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. |
Working conditions in factories | bad air, hot or cold, accidents, no breaks |
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. | 25 died on the fire escape, 500 employees, 146 died, 26 below 18 years old, youngest 11 |
Ellis Island | they got registered to enter, eyes checked, medical exam, mental exam, and legal exam |
Upton Sinclair. | wrote The Jungle, focused on meat packaging |
Ida Tarbell. | Focused on monopolies and John D. Rockefeller. |
Lincoln Steffens | Focused on political corruption, and wrote The Shame of the Cities |
John D. Rockefeller | monopoly on oil |
Andrew Carnegie | homestead strikee |
Horizontal integration | owning the same thing |
Vertical integration | owning everything |
Civil service | workers are chosen by friends |
Civil service act | workers had to take a test before a job |
Theodore Roosevelt | Meat Inspection Act, Pure food and drug act, Trust busting teddy |
William Taft | 16th amendment, federal income tax, 17th amendment, vote for senators |
Woodrow Wilson | Lowered tariffs, graduated income tax, Federal Reserve System, federal trade Commission |
Meat inspection act | forced meat packing companies to open the doors to inspectors |
Pure food and drug act | required all food and drug makers to list all the ingredient on package |
16th amendment | Federal income tax |
17th amendment | direct election of senators |
19th amendment | woman got the right to vote |
Trust | corporations come together to reduce competition and control prices |
Sherman Anti- trust act | A law that made it illegal to make trusts or monopolies |
Trust busting | getting rid of trust |