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Industrial/immigrate
8th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | Farming |
| Andrew Carnegie | Industrialist (business owner), who built a steel monopoly. Famous for donating money to charity. |
| Assembly Line | A way to quickly put a product together where each worker does one part. |
| Captain of Industry | A business owner who uses their money to help others and introduce new technology into a business. |
| Child Labor | When children worked in factories. |
| Factory | A building in a city where goods are made by machines for a low cost. |
| Gilded Age | A time when industries and cities grew causing business owners to become very rich while workers were very poor. |
| Industrialization | The growth of business through the use of new technologies. |
| Labor/ Laborers | Work/ Workers |
| Mass Production | Making a large amount of a good quickly and cheaply using a factory. |
| Monopoly/ Trust | One one company controls all or almost all of one type of business by putting other companies out of business. |
| J.P. Morgan | A very wealthy banker. |
| Robber Baron | A business owner who gains money by treating their workers badly, bribing government officials, and putting other companies out of business. |
| John D. Rockefeller | A business owner famous for creating an oil monopoly. |
| Philanthropy | Donating money to help society. |
| Tenement | A crowded one room apartment shared by multiple families. |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | A fire that caused the death of 146 workers. Workers were unable to escape because the factory owners did not follow any safety procedures. |
| Unskilled Labor | Jobs that do not require an education or specific skill. |
| Urban | City |
| Urbanization | The movement of people from the country to the city. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | A business owner famous for building Grand Central Station and a railroad monopoly. |
| Angel Island | Immigration station off of the coast of California where Asian Immigrants entered the U.S. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | A law that prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. |
| Ellis Island | Immigration station off of the coast of New York where European Immigrants entered the U.S. |
| Famine | When there is not enough food and people begin to starve. |
| Gentleman’s Agreement | An agreement between the U.S. and Japan that Japan would stop Japanese immigrants from coming to the U.S. |
| Home Country | The place an immigrant came from. |
| Immigrant | A person who leaves their home country to move to a new country. |
| Nativist | A person who does not want immigrants to enter their country because of their different cultural backgrounds. |
| Nativism | The idea that immigrants are bad for a country. |
| Prejudice | Judging a group of people based on their race, religion, home country, or skin color and treating them badly. |
| Push Factor | Bad things in a person’s home country that make them want to leave. (famine, poverty, war, discrimination) |
| Pull Factor | Good things in a different country that make a person want to move there. (factory jobs, food, safety, education) |
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