Gilded Age and Immigration

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Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

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Robber Baron

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The law created to prevent monopolies, and break up large companies like Standard Oil

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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What is a Pull Factor?

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Moving to a country because of something good it has

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What was an entity that runs several companies as one large corporation? Options: Trust, Merger, Corporation, Monopoly

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Trust

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Most immigrants went through this processing center in New York City: Pearl Harbor, Long Island, Ellis Island, Angel Island

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Ellis Island

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Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry? Options: Electrification, Vulcanization, Steam power, Bessemer Process

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Bessemer Process

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Tenements

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Cheap apartments (usually only one room for a family, no air conditioning)

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What is a Push Factor?

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Leaving a country because of famine

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Who immigrated to Angel Island? Options: Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Jewish

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Chinese

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Why was America called the Melting Pot?

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It represents all people coexisting & living as 1 nation.