U 9 - A New Century: Transitioning to a Modern America

immigration

• over-crowded, run-down apartments

• working in a factory

• moving from one’s homeland to live in another place

• people who live in one town and work in another

urbanization

• movement of people from rural areas to cities; growth of cities

• people moving from the cities to the country

• people moving to another country to live

• people working in one town and living in another

tenements

• people who work in factories and live in apartments

• another word for a factory that makes different kinds of clothing from cotton

• people who travel and work from place to place without ever settling down

• poorly built, unsafe, unsanitary, over-crowded housing where many immigrants lived

industrialization

• the development of industries for the machine production of goods

• people who work in factories

• over-crowded, run-down apartments in large cities

• making clothing and other goods from cotton and wool

mass production

• people who work together to make one product

• production of large amount of goods in a short amount of time through the use of machinery and assembly lines

• a large group of people moving from one place to another in order to find work

• producing a very large, heavy product

assembly line

• production of large amount of goods in a short amount of time through the use of machinery

• moving from place to place in order to find enough work to feed your family

• an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product

• the development of industries for the machine production of goods

specialization of labor

• people each learn a specific job to do and work together to complete a larger task

• the development of industries for the machine production of goods.

• production of large amount of goods in a short amount of time through the use of machinery and assembly lines

• improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something

innovation

• people each learn a specific job to do and work together to complete a larger task

• the development of industries for the machine production of goods.

• poorly built, unsafe, unsanitary, over-crowded housing

• improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something

labor union

• organization of factory owners who plan how to make the best products for the least amount of cost

• organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

• a company or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale

• improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something

free enterprise

• a system by which workers are paid by products & goods rather than cash

• a government system that controls all the businesses in a country

• an economic system that provides all needed goods to all workers free of charge

• an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control