US History - Topic 2 -2024

Nativists would most likely favor

Horizontal Integration

Tenement housing

Goals of the Americanization movement included

The Sherman Anti-trust Act..

the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by generous donation of money to good causes

Factory jobs in cities near transportation routes

Jacob Riis focused his efforts to

​​​​​​Bessemer process created a strong but lightweight steel to build new inventions, (skyscraprs & suspension bridges)

American pull factors for immigration.

Employers anger toward their workers' trying to unionize in the late 1800s

Which of the following is the best description of the "Robber Barons?"

Discrimination toward "New Immigrants" was largely based on

Pull factors for immigration

Living conditions for poor people/workers in cities during industrialization were:

Social issues affecting urbanization include tenement housing, water scarcity and crime

strikes and labor disputes in the late 1800s mostly ended in violence by both sides (labor and management)

What was Industrialism?

What is urbanization? 

Define wage slavery

The Interstate Commerce Commission

Industrialization led to more:

What were positive outcomes of the Industrialization

MANY restrictions were placed on all immigrants because they were willing to work for cheap

What are the characteristics of Industrialization?

What is a philanthropist?

This led to improved transportation, railroads, skyscrapers and suspension bridges

A key concept of Social Darwinism:

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis documented the living conditions of -

Many of the labor strikes in the late 1800s hurt the labor movement because

New immigrants of the late 1800s were

One attraction to living in the city even if you were a poor worker was

Vertical Integration

Social Darwinism

The majority of strikes in the late 1800s ended peacefully and were successful

Protective Tariffs

The theory of laissez faire economics states the economy functions best when the government