Exam Study Guide

1. What mode of transportation did the immigrants used in the 1870s?
- Steamship
2. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory infamous for what?
- Fire that killed 146 women
3. People who break labor strikes by working for less money.
- Scabs
4. The main purpose of Americanization movement was to
- Assimilate immigrants into the dominant "American culture"
5. What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration?
- Chinese Exclusion Act
6. Where did the Immigrants moved because it was cheap and has lots of jobs?
- Cities
7. What was the name of the main immigration processing station in san Francisco?
- Angel Island
8. The smaller men in the room in the picture
- the Senate or the United States Senators
9. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was organized by what type of people?
- Radical Unionists or Socialists
10. What new metal allowed U.S. to make new forms of constructions?
- Steel
11. What technology allowed factories to move away from rivers?
- Electricity
12. What would best reduce monopolies and trusts?
- Competition
13. The Jungle was resposible for what law?
- Meat Inspection Act
14. Settlement houses were made possible by?
- Social Reformers
15. Old appartments occupied by poor people were called?
- Tenements
16. Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry?
- Meat Packing, Slaughterhouses
17. The Gentlemen's Agreement did what?
- decreased Japanese Immigration, desegregated SF classrooms
18. Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones?
- Railroads to help train travelers
19. The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors, T or F?
- False
20. Who is the industrialist that made vertical and horizontal integration famous?
- Andrew Carnegie
21. The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
- Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition
22. Rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called?
- Social Darwinism
23. Patronage is: a bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
- Putting a friend into a job
24. Tammany Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
- NYC political machine
25. The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
- Graft

The company Credit Mobilier was famous for what?
- Steal/take money from railroads for shareholders.