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Quiz Study Guide - BIG Business and Immigration
BIG Business
Vocab – Match the word to the definition.
1. __B___ Mass production
A. When one company has total ownership of a product or service
2. __A___ Monopoly
3. __C___ National Market
4. ___D__ Assembly Line
B. Producing a large quantity (amount) of a product quickly and
cheaply
C. Markets that stretch across the continent. People can buy things
from anywhere in the country.
D. Arranging workers in such a way to manufacture a product quickly
and cheaply, giving each worker one task
5. Complete the chart.
Name of the city/region
Name of the industry located there
Pittsburgh
Steel
Chicago
Meat Packing
New England
Textiles
Detroit
Automobile
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6. List all factors that caused big business. (Why the US industrialized)
Better Transportation – Railroad
Advertising
New Inventions
Access to Raw Materials
More labor – immigrants
Mass production
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7. How did the Railroad help industry and big business? Name 3 ways.
Brought raw materials from the west to the factories in the east.
a. Copper, lead, and iron ore
Railroads carried goods (finished products) from factories to people all over the country
This creates NATIONAL MARKETS
b. Markets that stretch across the continent
c. Now people can buy things from anywhere around the country
8. What did Thomas Edison invent? What was the impact on industry?
Light bulb, electric lighting
Extended the work day
9. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent? What was the impact on industry?
Telephone, Bell Telephone Company
Increased communication
10. What did Henry Ford invent? What was the impact on industry?
Model T, Assembly Line
Increased productivity (made products quick and cheap)
Other companies copied Ford’s assembly line
11. List the examples of the 3 big businesses studied in this unit AND the captain of each industry.
Oil – Rockefeller
Steel – Carnegie
Railroad/Shipping – Vanderbilt
12. Look at the political cartoon. What does it represent?
the power of monopolies
What captain of industry is represented?
John D. Rockefeller
Immigration
1. What caused immigrants to move to the USA in the early 1900s?
IMMIGRATION FACTORS
EMIGRATION FACTORS
Religious Freedom
Poverty
Job opportunities (economic opportunities)
Famine
Land opportunities
Religious Persecution
Equality/Freedoms
Oppressive governments
Shortage of land
Hope for better opportunities
Escape from oppressive governments
Adventure
Religious freedom
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2. Where did most European immigrants enter the USA? Where did most Asian immigrants enter the USA?
Europeans – Ellis Island
Asians – Angles Island
3. What obstacles did immigrants face in America?
Overcrowded cities and tenements
Bad working conditions (low pay, long hours, child labor)
Discrimination
4. During the early 1900s, from where were many immigrants coming?
South and Eastern Europe
China and Japan
5. What two groups of immigrants faced harsh discrimination?
Chinese and Irish
6. List 3 government policies that discriminated against immigrants. Explain each.
• Chinese Exclusion Act – banned Chinese immigrants for 10 years and from US citizenship
• Gentleman’s Agreement - 1907, the Japanese agreed to limit the number of immigrants to the US,
while the US pledged fair treatment of Japanese Americans already in the US
• Immigration Act of 1917 – required all immigrants to be able to read and write in some language.