Industrialization, Immigration, and Urban Life

Immigration Writing Part 1: Research 4 aspects of immigration. Keep notes on your research as you will be turning it in with part 2 1. Process immigrants went through at Ellis Island to be admitted to United States 2. Living conditions in the cities where many immigrants settled 3. what work was available to the immigrants 4. How immigrants were treated by those already in the United States Part 2: Write a 1 page letter to your family in the country from which you came describing your experiences as an immigrant. Need to include specific information from your research.

Migration to Cities & Immigration Ellis Island Angel Island Ethnic ghettos Old vs. new immigrants?

Nativism Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

Living and Working Conditions for immigrants Tenements sweatshops

Reformers & Social Gospel Jacob Riis Jane Addams Social Gospel Hull House

Inventions

Urban Life in the Age of Industrialism Electric trolley Saloons dance halls &cabarets Amusement parks Vaudeville

Rise of Big Business

Giants of Early Industry Bessemer process Andrew Carnegie Vertical integration Monopoly Gospel of Wealth

Read and highlight/underline answer questions in complete sentence using a quote from the text for each answer 1. Changes in civilization have brought about what social problem? 2. How does Andrew Carnegie define wealth? Who is it meant to benefit? 3. Explain the three ways in which Carnegie determines the wealthy administer their wealth. 4. Which procedure of administering wealth does Carnegie believe is the most beneficial to society and why?

Giants of industrialization Edwin Drake Oil in PA John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroads J.P. Morgan Finance capitalist George Westinghouse Westinghouse Electric Company

Social Darwinism & Gilded Age Social Darwinism Horatio Alger Mark Twain & Gilded Age

Workers & Labor Unions

Conditions of the Worker Review: Industrial Revolution Review: Industrial Revolution Mentally Physically Financially-see table in Smart Notebook Child labor

Unions Labor unions Craft unions Trade unions

Knights of Labor Factory workers, farmers, shopkeepers, office workers African Americans Social reforms

American Federation of Labor Samuel Gomper Strikes & boycotts Collective bargaining & mediation Arbitration Closed shop

Employer Response to Unions Yellow-dog contracts Blacklists Lockouts Scabs injunctions

Strikes & Confrontations Great Railway Strike 1877 Haymarket Riot Homestead Strike Pinkertons Pullman strike Eugene Debs

Labor Union Debate read articles Make list of 5 points supporting your side Make list of 3 points supporting other side Include for each of these 3 points, a counter argument your side could use in retaliation Will be turning in at end of class

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