Friday, January 11, 2013

Unit Exam Study Guide

  • Immigrants in the 1870  arrived via what mode of transportation?
       -Steamships.
  • The triangle shirtwaist factory was infamous for what?
        -A shameful fire that killed 146 women.
  • These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money?
        -Scabs
  • The main purpose of Americanization movement was to
      -Assimilate immigrants into the dominant American Culture
  • What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S?
        -Chinese Exclution Act
  • New immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs?
        -Cities
  • The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was named
      -Angel Island

  • In the cartoon whos was the smaller one in the room?
The United States Senator
  • Industrial workers of the world was organized by
          -Radical unionists,socialists
  • This new metal allowed the u.s to make skyscrapers and new forms of construction?
         -Steel
  • What technology allowed factories to locate away from rivers?
       -Electricity
  • What would best reduce monopolies and trusts?
            -Competition
  • Upton Sinclairs book The jungle was responsible for this law.
          -Meat Inspection Act
  • settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate.who make these houses reformers politition workers?
                 -Social Reformers
  • Old apartments that housed by poor people were called Tenement
  • upton sinclar wote his book for what industry?
               -the meat industry,slaugterhouse
  • The gentlemens agreement did what?
            -decreased japanese immigration and desegregated SF classrooms
  • Which industry would most benefit my standardized time zones?
           -Railroads

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