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37 Cards in this Set
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Settlement House |
Inner-city area providing educational recreational, and other social services to immigrants and the community. |
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Emigrant |
Person leaving a country. |
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New England |
Consists of Conneticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. |
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Steamboat |
Invented by Robert Fulton. Propelled by a steam engine and a paddle-wheel used on rivers in the 1800s |
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Pull Factors |
-Jobs -Freedom -Cheaper land -Better life -More safety |
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Triangle shirwaist factory fire deatails |
-March 25, 1911, 146 workers left dead -neglected safety precautions -Mostly teenage girls (immigrants) -jumping out windows, falling down elevator shafts -owners get away in court with manslaughter and walk away with pockets full of money |
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monopoly |
buisnesses that gain control on an industry by eliminating other competitors. |
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potato famine |
famine in Ireland (1840's) many starved and many emigrated to the usa. Over 1 million Irish come to the us |
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Irish Immigrants |
-Lived in shanty towns -not good sanitation -hard to find jobs -seen as below other races -mostly in New York -Lots are murdered |
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German Immigrants |
-Mostly in Pennsylvania -Started Germantowns -lots are farmers -most immigrated for gov./religious reasons |
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Chinese Immigrants |
-very soulful -Lots working on TRR -responisible, civilized (seen as different) -very biased about -Chinese Exclusion Act |
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Push factors |
-war/political violence -political/religious persecution -lack of land -lack of jobs -lots of crimes |
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strikes |
to stop work to demand better working conditions or pay raise |
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mechanical reaper |
A device that cuts grain. (Cyrus McCormick) |
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Urbanization |
growth in cities resulting from industrialization |
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Industrial revolution |
The economic changes of the late 1700's when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
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Angel Island |
San Fransisco Bay immigration station for Asian immigrants |
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nativist |
native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
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midwest |
1/4 of geographic regions defined by the uscb -Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin. |
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Unions |
association of workers formed to protect people and further their rights and interests; a labor union |
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Union Pacific |
Class I freight railroad is 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans |
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Central Pacific |
between Cali and Utah. railroad network, Part of first TRR |
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Standard Time |
time for places in the same longitude;established in a country or region by law or custom |
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immigrants |
a person coming into a country |
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solar time |
time based on calculations of the suns passage across the sky |
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homestead strike |
Violent strike at Andrew Carnegie's homestead, PN, Steel mills in 1892 -he refused to listen to workers complaints |
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Gilded Age |
late 1800 era of fabulous wealth |
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Andrew Carnegie |
led the steel industry and dominated by selling better and cheaper products |
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John Rockefellar |
led oil industry and dominated by putting competitors out of buisness (monopoly) |
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telegraph |
sending messages along a wire; creating signals by making/breaking and electrical connection |
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Interchangeable parts |
-created by Eli Whitney -parts that are identical so they will fit into and item of the same size |
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cities |
-pop. going up -boomtowns -factory workers/immigrants, etc...... |
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steam engine |
engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power |
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factory system |
method of production using many workers and machines in one building |
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steel tipped plow |
cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverized soil -John Deere |
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Ellis Island |
gateway for immigrants coming by boat as the buisiest immigrant inspection station -upper NY bay |
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Promontory, UT |
meeting point of 2 ends of TRR |
