Review for Notes 10-17 Immigration and Industrialization.

Review for Notes 10-17

Immigration and Industrialization

This kind of transportation goes under the city ?

• Subway

[hint: sub = under or below]

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William Jenney was the first to build this because cities couldn’t

grow outward anymore

• Skyscraper

[look at all the tall letters in William….they are like skyscrapers!]


Cities grew rapidly since they were built next to these

• Factories or industries


Which man was the leader of the oil industry?

• John D. Rockefeller

[oil is found in the ground….rocks are too….so Rockefeller = oil]


“Black gold” is another name for this material?

• oil


Name two popular mail order catalog businesses:

• Sears and Roebuck

• Montgomery Ward


Since the frames of cars are made from this material, it

increased this industry

• The steel industry

[Cars also increased the oil industry]


This word means the same as the “city” or industrialized

• urban


This was created by Otis and helped people get up the tall

buildings in the cities

• elevators

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This is created when a business has complete control of the industry

• monopoly


This is the opposite of urban and means farm

areas

• rural


This man was the steel giant

• Andrew Carnegie

[Hint: Cars…made of steel, so Carnegie was the steel man]


Who created a cheaper method for converting iron into steel?

• Henry Bessemer


Sharecroppers and tenant farmers left the South and headed Northeast and to

the Midwest in order to escape these

discriminatory laws

• Jim Crow laws (“separate but equal” or segregation laws)

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This man was the leader in the railroad industry

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

[Vanderbilt “built” RRs]


Steel is the combination of iron and this element

• Iron + CARBON = steel


Big business created jobs for this group of people because they worked for low wages

• immigrants


This word means “to join” and is what Carnegie and Rockefeller did with smaller companies that could not

compete with their low prices

• Consolidate or consolidated or consolidation

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This is eliminated (done away with) in a monopoly

• Competition, since no one can offer the same low prices


What word means “to buy stock in a company hoping to

make $$”?

• invest


What word means “when companies join together to limit competition in an industry”? ?

• trusts


What word means “a business owned by

investors”? .

• Corporation

• The Railroad was our countries’ first corporation


Some business owners, like Carnegie and Rockefeller, created monopolies of

their industries. What is a negative

consequence of monopolies ?

• There is no competition so the monopoly can set prices for goods and services

• Also, wages for workers are low


What happened when cities could no longer grow

outwards ?

• They began to expand upward or vertically with the creation of skyscrapers and taller buildings


Why did cities grow so rapidly in the early 1900s ?

• Industries were growing and relocating near cities. This created the need for jobs, so people moved to the cities to find jobs.


How was big business a cause and effect of increased

immigration?

• Immigrants came to America looking for work/jobs and they were willing to work for low wages

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How could you best describe the relationship between industry and

immigration in the late 1800s?

• Industry provided and attracted immigrants to jobs and the immigrants provided a cheap workforce for industry


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