Industrialization and Immigration

Which best describes the working conditions of most immigrants during the Industrial Revolution? 

• Most immigrants worked long hours in low-paying industrial jobs
• Most immigrants worked as farmers in rural areas
• Most immigrants worked as bookkeepers or other professional jobs
• Most immigrants worked as tailors or other skilled jobs

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

A less expensive and easier way to make steel. It increased production and lowered the price of steel in the US dramatically.

• Industrial Revolution

• Bessemer Process

• JP Morgan

• Hull House

Which African American leader believed in full political, civil and social rights rather than to accept social segregation?

• Booker T. Washington
• J.P. Morgan
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Frederick Douglass

America transformed from a ________ society to a __________ society during the late 19th century and early 20th century

• Rural - Urban

• Urban-City

• Farming-Agricultural

• Rural-Democratic

Why did Jane Addams establish Hull House in Chicago?

• She liked visiting the candy shop with her father on business trips

• She wanted to help poor immigrants living in that area

• The federal government offered full payment.

• It was the best city in all of the United States.

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

The building in the picture is where immigrants usually lived with their families in cramped apartments.

• Tenements

• Condo

• Townhouse

• Shacks

What is a tenement?

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

Cities rapidly growing helped lead to--

• Political Machines

• Increase in Agricultural Exports

• Fewer Factory Workers

• Efficient Government