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AmHist2 U2L1 Things
Question | Answer |
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Industry | The production of goods, such as in factories where manufacturing occurs |
Industrial Revolution | Period in American (and world) history when the focus was on machines, factories, and industry |
Natural Resources | Materials that are produced from the earth |
Manufacturing | The making of goods by hand or machine |
Capital | The money that is invested in business |
Entrepreneur | People who invest and are willing to take a risk in buisness |
Monopoly | Control over a certain good or industry by one company. |
Labor | The people or effort that goes into making a good or service |
Factors of Production | Things that are used to produce goods |
Persecution | One of the reasons that Old Immigrants came to America was they were escaping their home countries due to their religious beliefs |
Famine | One of the reasons that New Immigrants were coming to America was starvation or lack of food |
Revolution | One of the reasons that New Immigrants were coming to America was to escape wars within their home countries. |
Ethnic | Neighborhoods of people from a homeland that lived near each other with common cultures and languages. |
Culture | The beliefs, languages and traditions of a country |
"Yellow Peril" | Nickname by Native-born Americans named for immigrants from Asian countries |
Gentlemen's Agreement | An unwritten agreement between two people or sets of people but is not considered a law |
President Roosevelt's Gentlemen's Agreement | Informal agreement made with Japan to strictly limit immigration |
Chinese Exclusion Act | This act passed by Congress sharply limited Chinese immigration |