Review for Notes 10-17
Immigration and Industrialization
This kind of transportation
goes under the city ?
• Subway
[hint: sub = under or below]
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William Jenney was the first to
build this because cities couldn’t
grow outward anymore
• Skyscraper
[look at all the tall letters in William….they
are like skyscrapers!]
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Cities grew rapidly since they
were built next to these
• Factories or industries
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Which man was the leader of
the oil industry?
• John D. Rockefeller
[oil is found in the ground….rocks are
too….so Rockefeller = oil]
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“Black gold” is another
name for this material?
• oil
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Name two popular mail order
catalog businesses:
• Sears and Roebuck
• Montgomery Ward
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Since the frames of cars are
made from this material, it
increased this industry
• The steel industry
[Cars also increased the oil industry]
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This word means the same as
the “city” or industrialized
• urban
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This was created by Otis and
helped people get up the tall
buildings in the cities
• elevators
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This is created when a
business has complete
control of the industry
• monopoly
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This is the opposite of
urban and means farm
areas
• rural
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This man was the steel giant
• Andrew Carnegie
[Hint: Cars…made of steel, so Carnegie
was the steel man]
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Who created a cheaper method for
converting iron into steel?
• Henry Bessemer
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Sharecroppers and tenant farmers left
the South and headed Northeast and to
the Midwest in order to escape these
discriminatory laws
• Jim Crow laws (“separate but equal” or
segregation laws)
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This man was the leader in
the railroad industry
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
[Vanderbilt “built” RRs]
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Steel is the combination of
iron and this element
• Iron + CARBON = steel
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Big business created jobs for
this group of people because
they worked for low wages
• immigrants
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This word means “to join” and is what
Carnegie and Rockefeller did with
smaller companies that could not
compete with their low prices
• Consolidate or consolidated or
consolidation
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This is eliminated (done away
with) in a monopoly
• Competition, since no one can offer the
same low prices
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What word means “to buy
stock in a company hoping to
make $$”?
• invest
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What word means “when
companies join together to limit
competition in an industry”? ?
• trusts
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What word means “a
business owned by
investors”? .
• Corporation
• The Railroad was our countries’ first
corporation
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Some business owners, like Carnegie
and Rockefeller, created monopolies of
their industries. What is a negative
consequence of monopolies ?
• There is no competition so the monopoly
can set prices for goods and services
• Also, wages for workers are low
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What happened when cities
could no longer grow
outwards ?
• They began to expand upward or vertically
with the creation of skyscrapers and taller
buildings
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Why did cities grow so
rapidly in the early 1900s ?
• Industries were growing and relocating
near cities. This created the need for jobs,
so people moved to the cities to find jobs.
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How was big business a
cause and effect of increased
immigration?
• Immigrants came to America looking for
work/jobs and they were willing to work for
low wages
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How could you best describe the
relationship between industry and
immigration in the late 1800s?
• Industry provided and attracted immigrants
to jobs and the immigrants provided a
cheap workforce for industry
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