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immigration life
immagration and herban life
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |