Unit Exam Study Guide

Study Questions:

Immigration:

1)

2) Immigrants in 1870 arrived via what mode of transportation.

- Steamship.

3) What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.

- Chinese Exclusion Act.

4) New immigrats move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs.

- The Cities.

5) The main purpose of the Americanization movement was to?

- Assimlate immigrants into the dominant 'American Culture'.

Industrialization:

1)

2) What would best reduce monopolies and trust?

- competion.

3) This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscrapers and new forms of construction?

- Steel.

4) The smaller men in the room are? (Picture - cartoon 'Bosses of The Senate')

- United States Senators.

5) These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money

- Scabs.

Factories & People Working There

1)

2) What technology most allowed factories to locate away from rivers?

- Electricity.

3) An old apartment usually occupied by poor people is called a:

- Tenement

4) Settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers?

- Social Reformers.

5) Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was resposible for this law.

- The Meat Inspection Act.

Hodge Podge

1)

2) Patronage is:

- Putting a friend into a job.

3) Tammany Hall was a famous:

- NYC Political machine.

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

- Graft.
5) Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones: telegraphs, railroad, construction.
- Railroads to help train travelers.

Leaders or Villains?

1)

2)

3) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was organized by?

- Radicl unioinists, socialists.
4) The Gentlemn's Agreement did what?

- Decreased Japanese immigration and/or desegregated SF classrooms.

5) The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?

- Outlaw trust and monopolies that interfered with competition. Made trade more competitive.