Immigration and Industrialism Review Sheet
Immigration:
- Ellis Island
- Different
programs/viewpoints in response to massive immigration
- Immigrant
living conditions
- Ethnic
communities
- recent
immigration trends – look at America: Still a Melting Pot
- Specific
groups: Chinese, Vietnamese – why they came, difficulties they faced
- Old
Immigration (1840-1890) vs. New Immigration (1890-1925) – look at chart on
pg. 212
- Current
ways for immigrants to become citizens
Industrialism:
- Why
the growth of cities was important to industrialism
- Technological
developments and industrialism – standard gauge, time zones, Bessemer
Process – why it was significant
- How
monopolies were created though horizontal and vertical integration
- Government’s
role in industry
- Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
- Economies
of Scale
- Stocks
and bonds – reasons for investment
- Robber
Barons vs. Captains of Industry
- Rockefeller
and Carnegie
- Gospel
of Wealth
- Social
Darwinism
- Who
wanted to end child labor and how they did it
- Issues
which led to the rise of unions and union success/failure
- Rockefeller’s
American Beauty Rose
- Tucker
- Scofield Mine Accident – results
- Social
Gospel what it was
- Improvements
in the physical layout of cities