Unit Exam Study Guide

IMMIGRATION

• New immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs. Cities
• What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.? Chinese Exclusion Act
• Immigrants in the 1870's arrived by.. Steamships for transportation
• The main purpose of Americanization movement was to.. Assimilate immigrants into the dominant 'American culture'
• The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was named...Angel Island

INDUSTRIALIZATION

• The smaller men in the room are.. United State Senators
• This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscrapers and new forms of contructions? Steel
• What would best reduce monopolies and trusts? consolidation, competition, or corruption
• These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money. Scabs
• The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors, T or F? False

FACTORIES AND PEOPLE WORKING THERE

• Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was responsible for this law. The Meat Inspection Act
• Settlement Houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers? Social reformers
• An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a... Tenement
• What technology most allowed people to work away from... Electricity
• Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry? Meatpacking industry, meat, slaughterhouse

HODGE PODGE

• The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
• Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones: telegraph, railroad (to help train travelers), construction
• Tammary Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
• Patronage is: A bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
• Many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called? Social Darwinism

LEADERS AND VILLAINS

• The Gentlemen's agreement did what? decreased Japanese immigration and/or desegregated SF classrooms
• Industrial workers of the world (IWW) was organized by...Radical unionist, socialists
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what? A shameful fire that killed 146 women
• The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what? Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition
• The industrialist made vertical and horizontal integration famous. Andrew Carnegie