Immigration and Industrialization Review

Meatpacking

• Chicago
• New York City
• Atlanta
• Pittsburgh

What was not a challenge immigrants faced in the cities?

• Dishonest people taking advantage
• Political corruption
• Many factory jobs available
• Housing shortage and cheap tenements

What was Andrew Carnegie's main industry AND where?

• Oil - Pennsylvania
• Oil - Illinois
• Steel - Pennsylvania
• Steel - Illinois

Why did people immigrate to the United States?

• Hope for better opportunities
• They knew they would be rich
• The Civil War increased employment
• Factory jobs paid a lot

In the 1800s, people frequently moved from 

• cities to the country
• United States to Mexico
• United States to Canada
• rural countryside to cities

Who founded a well-known settlement house?

• Oprah Winfrey
• Michelle Obama
• Jane Addams
• Eleanor Roosevelt

Which groups gained power by helping new immigrants in the United States during the late 1800s?

• Labor Unions
• Big Business
• Political Machines
• Settlement Houses

Following the Civil War, which two immigrants groups faced the most discrimination?

• African and British
• Chinese and Indian
• Irish and Chinese
• Indian and African

How did John D. Rockefeller get so rich?

• Creating a cooperative
• Agreeing on an association
• Partnering in a corporation
• Owning a monopoly

Electricity

• Horatio Alger
• Alexander Graham Bell
• James Watts
• Thomas Edison