Industrialization and Immigration Vocab Review

manufacturing a large amount of goods quickly and cheaply

• monopoly

• trust

• strike

• mass production

an economic system in which land, resources, and businesses are privately owned. Tendency towards concentrated wealth

• network

• old immigrant

• sweatshop

• Capitalism

a system of connected railroad lines

• trust

• tenement

• consolidate

• network

A law passed in 1890 that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies

• new immigrant

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• mass production

• labor union

A reason that an immigrant might choose to settle in a specific country

• network

• assimilation

• culture

• Pull factor

negative term used to describe a 19th century businessman or banker who used questionable or unethical practices to become powerful and wealthy

• Captain of Industry

• union

• strike

• Robber Baron

an organization of workers whose goal was to improve working conditions

• settlement house

• monopoly

• labor union

• corporation

one of the deadliest workplace disasters in U.S. history, helped spark a fight for better working conditions in factories

• network

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• labor union

• assimilation

Someone who moves from one country to another permanently

• tenement

• union

• monopoly

• Immigrant

the economic practice of allowing private industry to operate without governmental control

• free enterprise

• strike

• sweatshop

• union