Review for Notes Immigration and Industrialization

This kind of transportation goes under the city ? Subway [hint: sub = under or below] Click One Time for Answer

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!] Click One Time for Answer

Cities grew rapidly since they were built next to these Factories or industries Click One Time for Answer

Which man was the leader of the oil industry? John D. Rockefeller [oil is found in the ground….rocks are too….so Rockefeller = oil] Click One Time for Answer

“Black gold” is another name for this material? oil Click One Time for Answer

Name two popular mail order catalog businesses: Sears and Roebuck Montgomery Ward Click One Time for Answer

Since the frames of cars are made from this material, it increased this industry The steel industry [Cars also increased the oil industry] Click One Time for Answer

This word means the same as the “city” or industrialized urban Click One Time for Answer

This was created by Otis and helped people get up the tall buildings in the cities elevators Click Two Times for Answers

This is created when a business has complete control of the industry monopoly Click Two Times for Answers

This is the opposite of urban and means farm areas rural Click One Time for Answer

This man was the steel giant Andrew Carnegie [Hint: Cars…made of steel, so Carnegie was the steel man] Click Two Times for Answers

Who created a cheaper method for converting iron into steel? Henry Bessemer Click One Time for Answer

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) Click Four Times for Answers

This man was the leader in the railroad industry Cornelius Vanderbilt [Vanderbilt “built” RRs] Click One Time for Answer

Steel is the combination of iron and this element Iron + CARBON = steel Click One Time for Answer

Big business created jobs for this group of people because they worked for low wages immigrants Click One Time for Answer

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 Click Twice for Answers

This is eliminated (done away with) in a monopoly Competition, since no one can offer the same low prices Click One Time for Answer

What word means “to buy stock in a company hoping to make $$”? invest Click One Time for Answer

What word means “when companies join together to limit competition in an industry”? ? trusts Click One Time for Answer

What word means “a business owned by investors”?. Corporation The Railroad was our countries’ first corporation Click One Time for Answer

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 Click One Time for Answer

What happened when cities could no longer grow outwards ? They began to expand upward or vertically with the creation of skyscrapers and taller buildings Click One Time for Answer

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. Click One Time for Answer

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 Click Four Times for Answers

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 Click One Time for Answer