Industrial Revolution, Immigration, & Urbanization

When one single company controls a specific industry, generally this leads to no choices for consumers

Crowded, dirty, & unsanitary travel conditions many people endured to get to America

European immigrants were processed mainly through

This could be processed then used to build railroads, buildings, and bridges

Electricity allowed for longer working hours, more time for social events, and safer streets.

Rundown buildings where most immigrants lived in New York City

A negative view of people like Carnegie & Rockefeller called them

Cities became very crowded because

The amount of immigrants moving to America had this effect on factories

Upton Sinclair exposed this industry in his book The Jungle

Investigative journalists who exposed the bad things happening in cities & factories.

Unsafe, long hours, low pay describe

People who came to America in the late 1800's; unskilled, poor, from Southern & Eastern Europe

Group of immigrants who at first considered themselves temporary migrants, did not many social activites due to work

J.D. Rockefeller made his fortune in

Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in

Railroads created

People who viewed business leaders in a positive way would refer to them as

Time period that included political corruption, terrible living & working conditions, and extreme poverty for many.

When people of different cultures blend together it is said to be a

Two groups who contributed to building the Transcontinental Railroad

Group of immigrants that came to the US to work in the gold & silver mines and agriculture

Group of immigrants who helped build the Transcontinental RR & had a law passed against them to limit immigration

Economic change from agriculture to industrial

Ida B. Wells exposed this in her book The Red Record

Group of immigrants who were subject to pogroms and discrimination in their home country

Asian immigrants were mainly processed through

Time period when the US had huge technological advances, mass immigration, and economic prosperity.

This muckraker exposed the ills of child labor and the conditions they worked in.

Group of immigrants who were discriminated against the least and actively tried to assilimate into American culture

Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in

This muckraker exposed life in the slums and the terrrible conditions of the tenements.

J.P. Morgan made his fortune in