Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• They were looking for work on farms

• Factories created many job opportunities.

• They wanted to settle on the frontier

• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

What is a tenement?

• A new form of transportation
• Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
• The end of immigration
• A revolutionary war in Africa

This invention allowed businesses to work longer hours:

• Telephone.

• Electric Lightbulb.

• Air Conditioning.

• Central Heating.

Andrew Carnegie was famous for vertically aligning which industry?

• Oil.

• Railroads.

• Steel.

• Shipping.

What option best describes politics in most American cities in the late 1800's?

• Helpful.

• Violent.

• Hateful.

• Corrupt.

Define a monopoly.

• A card game

• businesses that are owned by investors

• A company controls all or most of businesses in an industry. This eliminates competition.

• Poor families

What were some problems that the people in factories encountered?

• long hours, good pay
• Low wages, long hours, dangerous
• dangerous, long hours, good pay
• low wages, good hours. dangerous

Which of the following was responsible for the increased production of steel from iron?

• Lowell system
• Bessemer process
• steam engine
• Steel Gin

Immigration push factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place
• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working

 Immigration  pull factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place
• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working