Gilded Age and Immigration

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

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

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

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What is a Pull Factor?

• Moving to a country because of something good it has
• Leaving your country because of war
• Leaving your country because of drought
• Leaving your country due to famine

What was an entity that runs several companies as one large corporation? (Standard Oil)

• Trust
• Merger
• Corporation
• Monopoly

Most immigrants went through this processing center in New York City

• Pearl Harbor
• Long Island
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island

Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry?

• Electrification
• Vulcanization
• Steam power
• Bessemer Process

What are tenements?

• Nice high rise Apartments
• Cheap apartments (usually only one room (for a family) no air conditioning)
• Apartments where people live and work
• Ten families working in the mines.

What is a Push Factor

• Leaving your country due to job opportunities
• Coming to a country because of good soil
• Leaving a country because of famine

Who immigrated to Angel Island?

• Mexican
• Chinese
• Italian
• Jewish

Why was America called the Melting Pot ?

• It represents all the different foods in America
• It represents the gov. requiring everyone to become the same
• It represents all  people coexisting & living as 1 nation.
• It represents everyone getting jobs at restaurants