Gilded Age

Why were most manufacturing areas (factories) around population centers?

• Many people lived in the cities and were needed to work in the factories.

• Only place with raw materials

• Factories required cities

• May people to buy their products

_____ deposits were transported to _____ for production in steel mills.

• Lead to Chicago

• Copper to Detroit

• Coal to Boston

• Iron Ore to Pittsburgh

All of the following are reasons for immigrants to come to the US EXCEPT

• better climate

• escape famine and land shortage

• religious freedom

• escape high taxes

Hull house was founded by Jane Addams to

• create specialize industry

• support prohibition

• religion training

• help immigrants in the city

What workplace accident made Americans aware that work places needed to be safer?

• Pullman Strike

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• Haymarket Strike

• Homestead Strike

All of these were negative effects of industrialization EXCEPT

• child labor

• long hours for low wages

• unsafe working conditions

• mechanization

Laborers organized unions and _______ to improve their working conditions

• temperance

• suffrage

• strike

• prohibition

Ellis Island & Angel Island were both______

• Centers for Shipping

• Immigrant Processing Centers

• Centers of Manufacturing

• Settlement Houses

1. National Markets
2. Advertising
3. Low Cost of Production
4. Lack of Competition

Which title best fits this list?

• Reasons for Farming

• Reasons for Growth of Cities

• Reasons for Business Growth

• Reasons for Immigration

Which one is an example of monopoly?

• transcontinental railroad

• large oil company in one state

• a national market for packaged meat

• one company owning the majority of electric plants