Unit Exam Study Guide

Imigrants in the 1870's arrived via what mode of transportation?
Steamship

What technology most allowed factories aloowed factories to locate away fro the river?
Electricity

The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors. True or False?
FALSE

The main imiigration processing station in San Fransico was called...
Angel Island

Tammany Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, or Chicago business?
NYC political machine

What law was enacted to decrese Chinese immigration to U.S.?
Chinese Exclusion Act

These people were used to break up labor strikes by working for less money.
Scabs

What would best reduce monopolies and trusts? Consiliidation, competition, or corruption.
Competition

The main purpose of Americanization movement was to...
Assimilate immigrants into the dominate "American Culture"

New immigration move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs
Cities

The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interferred with competition

Settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate. who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers
Reformers

This industrialist made vertical and horizontal integration famous...
Andrew Carnegie

The smaller men in the room are..
United States Senators

Many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and God selected them is called...
Social Darwinism

This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skycrapers and new forms of constructions?
steel

An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a...
Tenement

Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry...
Meatpacking industry, meat, slaughterhouse

The Trinagle Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what?
A shameful fire that killed 146 women

Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was resonsible for this law...
Meat Inspection Act

Patronage is: a bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
Putting a friend into a job

The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
Graft

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was organized by...
Radical unionists, socialists

The Gentlemen's Agreement did what?
decreased Japanese immigration and/or desegregated SF classrooms

The company Credit Mobiler was famous for what?
Steal/take money from railroads for shareholders

Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones: telegraph, railroad, construction.
Railroads to help train travelers

The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition.

Coming to the United States

How much time was the trip from Europe and Asia, and how would YOU have liked it?

The trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe took approximately one week while crossing the Pacific Ocean to get to Asia took nearly 3 weeks. I would not have liked being an immigrant coming to Asian not just due to the lengthy trips but also how they were kept in the gloom crowded with many other immigrants with no way of exercise or fresh air being in the glooms they had to sleep close building sweat and having to sleep in louse-infested bunks while sharing toilets with one another. With those conditions many died and were not able to even make it to the United States. I could of been one of those people that died too..

What are the names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York? Describe the immigrant’s experience at each.

There were two main immigration processing stations. One in San Francisco Bay called Angel Island, and the other that was at Castle Garden in New York, which was later moved to New Harbor named Ellis Island. At Ellis Island the whole ordeal might have taken 5 hours or more. They had to pass a physical exam making sure they had no disease. Those who passed would report to a government inspector checking whether they met the legal requirements: Never being convicted of a felony, showing they could work, and that they had some money which was at least $25  after 1909. At Angel Island the concept of the processing was alike. The immigrants had just endured harsher questioning and had to wait in filthy detention facilities while they waited for there acceptance.

How did Denis Kearney try to stop Asian people from entering California in 1882? Why did he do this, and how would you feel if you were Chinese?

Denis Kearney tried to stop Asian people from entering California by asking or the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act since the Chinese were taking most jobs accepting low wages. If I happened to be Chinese I would be mad especially since I had came to California for a better life.

In 1907-08 the Gentlemen’s Agreement did two things. What were they?

The Gentleman's Agreement limited emigration of unskilled workers to the U. S. in exchange for the repeal of the San Fransisco segregation order.

The Meat Inspection

Meat

Eating unheathly food produced by factories

Ate diesase infested food

There were requirements for meatpackers after the act.

Inspection

Nauseating working

Sinclair wrote on the accounts of the meat factory conditions in The Jungle

President Roosevelt promised to fix conditions if proven true

Enviorment was unhealthy

Commission experts investigated the allegations made by Sinclair

The goverment had to pay for inspectors to insure there were healthy conditions due to the act

In office, Roosevelt  pushed the passage for The Meat Inspection Act when accounts were true

Outstandingly, the compromise won it's passage

Never the factories will the factories be disgusting again.

Act

Crazy

The Jungle

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Essential Question 

Everyone including President Theodore Roosevelt was nauseated by Sinclair's accounts of the factories. He described the conditions in his book The Jungle which was a research novel made in 1904. The president had promised that if the accounts were true he would put in some action. Since the allegations he made were indeed true, the president responded by pushing for passage of the Meat Inspection Act that was eventually passed. Sinclair writing The Jungle made him a progressive since he wrote the book for change.



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The New American Immigrants

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1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization?

B. Native-born Americans wanted the immigrants to practice their customs 

2. What were cities most like for the new immigrants coming to America?

 C. Immigrants would most likely have had to dodge horse manure 

3. What would best describe the cities to a new immigrant?

A. Pocketpickets and thieves were plenty 

4. Why did immigrants move to the cities in the first place?

D. A & B only 

5. People moved from the farms to the cities because?

B. Farming technology improved

Labor Unions Emerging

Based upon what I have read, labor unions were good for the workers, but bad for the employers because workers fought for their rights, while employers lost money to pay the workers more. The Triangle Trade was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because of a fire that engulfed everything on the upper floors because of all the flammable products that occupied the space. These fires could have been prevented by having a sprinkler system, and left the emergency doors open. Monopolists did not want unions because because they would lose money. The union workers fought for a better pay, so the monopolists had to give them more money. Therefore, monopolists hired scabs: people who were willing to be paid less to work. Unionized workers did not like scabs because scabs took the workers jobs and defeated the purpose of the union going on strike. Many factory and sweatshop owners did not like the vision of unions like the IWW because they felt that those types of organizations would overpower the capitalist system. That would mean the rich would be treated the same as the poor if organizations like the IWW would have enough power over their employers.

Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

The three pieces of information I chose that supported the cartoon were how Laborers

were forced to work fourteen to sixteen hour work days in order to fulfill their expecations of there boss, they worked in unsafe

conditions with people possibly dying and getting hurt, and they were payed very very little even though worked in such dangerous places. These made labor unions necessary becuase due to the bad treatment, the unions got together to fight for better treatment as in working conditions. They also workwed to get higher wagers and shortewr working days. The goverment helped make monopolies since the industralist were the ones that brought them money and helped them make the laws. The money in poltics contributed to freedom of speech and this cartoon on how monopolist controlled workers out workering them.

Are the Old Bosses Still in Charge?

The rise of industry and monopolies had three main causes. The growth was a cause that was due to wealth people had with their natural resources. The second cause was how the government supported bussiness especially when companies gave them money. Like when the Sherman Antitrust Act was made companies went straight to the government giving them money and telling them what they wanted so that the law was weak giving them away to do whatever they wanted. The third cause was the growing population which enabled them to make more money since more things were needed. With the growing population everything was made and done cheaper but were put on the markets expensive. Trusts and monopolies during America’s early industrial age allowed the workers to do things unsafely so they wouldn’t have to spend more money making things safer in the refinery’s.