Immigration & Big Business test study guide
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This test will comprise of 25 questions worth 4 points each. There are 20 multiple choice & 5 matching.This is a
summative grade worth 100 points. The test is 12/6-12/9/2013:
1. Hull House a settlement house founded by Jane Addams (first one in Chicago) that provided help for immigrants such as:
English classes, daycare, help finding a job, etc.
2. Jane Addams social worker who founded Hull House
3. Thomas Edison-light bulb. Explain how this invention impacted industrial growth:
*led to electrification which led to* labor-saving machines (washing machine, electric stove) and allowed for other
inventions that required electricity (radio)
4. Alexander Graham Bell-telephone. Explain how this invention impacted industrial growth:
*improved communications by increasing the availability of telephones
* created more jobs
5. political machines (how did they gain and maintain power [political corruption]?)
the political bosses (in charge of the political machine) would unfairly reward supporters (voters) with gov’t jobs in
exchange for votes. Business owners also supported political machines with votes because the bosses were corrupt and
could be bribed to
“look the other way” when the business owner didn’t pay all of his taxes or
the tenement owner wouldn’t improve his building
6. meatpacking industry (where?)
Chicago
7. textile industry (where?) New England
8. automobile industry (where?)
Detroit
9. steel industry (where?)
Pittsburgh
10. List three reasons for an increase in immigration:
I.
Hope for better opportunities
II.
Religious freedom
III.
Escape from oppressive governments
IV.
Adventure
11. List three reasons the tenements became overcrowded:
I. rapid industrialization
II. an increase in immigration
III. political machines ran the cities and did nothing to solve the problem
12. List three reasons why cities grew and developed:
I.
Specialized industries (steel, meat packing)
II.
Immigration increased
III.
People moved from rural to urban areas for jobs
13. assimilation
trying to fit in or blend into a culture
14. Which immigrants faced discrimination around 1900 in America? Chinese & Irish
15. Tenement(s) the run-down, dirty, cramped apartment buildings in the slums that often led to disease from the filth
16. Urbanization The rapid growth of the cities which resulted in overcrowding, poor sanitation & crime.
17. The Gilded Age The Extravagant wealth and the poverty underneath