Unit Exam Study Guide

1.Immigrants in the 1870's arrived via what mode of transportation?

• they arrived via steamships

2.what technology most allowed factories to locate away from rivers?

• electricity

3.The number one strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors, true or false?

• False

4.The main immigration processing station in San Fransisco was called?

• Angel Island

5.tammany hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago Business?

• NYC political machine

6.what law was enacted to decrease chinese immigration to U.S.?

• Chinese exclusion act

7.these people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money.

• scabs

8.what would best reduce monopolies and trusts? consolidation, competition, or corruption

• competition

9.the main purpose of Americanization movement was to

• assimilate immigrants into the dominant 'american culture'

10.new immigrants moved here because it was cheap and lots of jobs.

• cities

11.the sherman antitrust act was created to do what?

• outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition

12.settlment houses helped new immigrants assimilate. who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers?

• social reformers

13.this industrialist made vertical and horizontal integration famous

• Andrew Carnegie

14.the smaller men in the room are

• united states senators

15. many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that god selected them is called

• social darwinism

16.this new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscrapers and new forms of construction?

• steel

17.an old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a

• tenement

18.upton sinclair wrote his book on what industry

• meatpacking industry

19.the triangle shirtwaist factory was infamous for what?

• a shameful fire that killed 146 women

20.upton sinclair's book the jungle was responsible for this law

the meat inspection act

21.patronage is :bribe not doing what you