Industrialization & Urbanization

What term describes a person who invests capital (money) in a business (especially a large business)?

• Banker

• Socialist

• Capitalist

• CEO

Hull House was a famous settlement house that helped the people of what city?

• New York

• Chicago

• Los Angeles

• San Francisco

Which of these was NOT one of the dangers of early American cities?

• poverty

• natural disasters (like earthquakes)

• disease

• high speed traffic

A nativist would be most likely to support which of these quotes?

• "Send us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses."

• "When everyone is included, everyone wins."

• "America for Americans!"

• "Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.”

A person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit is referred to as?

• a philanthropist

• an entrepreneur

• a nativist

• an urban cowboy

Immigrants arriving in New York City around the turn of the century (c1900) would have been processed at this immigration station?

• Angel Island

• Liberty Island

• Ellis Island

• The Isle of Wight

A run-down and often overcrowded apartment building was called?

• a slum

• a ghetto

• a tenement

• a settlement house

Immigrants coming to the United States in the late 1800s were expected to adopt the customs and traditions of mainstream America. This is known as?

• Nativism

• Assimilation

• Reconstruction

• Social Gospel

A small factory where workers had to work long hours and under poor conditions for little pay?

• Tenement

• Sweatshop

• Textile mill

• Grist mill

Creating a monopoly by consolidating many firms involved in the same business (buying up all the railroad companies in the United States for instance) is called?

• Vertical integration

• Horizontal integration

• Conglomeration

• Industrialization