Friday, January 11, 2013

unit exam study guide

Q) immigrants in the 1870's arrived in the united states by
A) steamships

Q) the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory was infamous for what
A) a shameful fire that killed 146 women

Q) these people would break labor strikes by working for less money
A) scabs

Q) the main purpose of Americanization movement was to?
A) assimilate immigrants into the dominate american culture.

Q) what law became enacted to decrease chinese immigration to U.S
A) chinese exclusion act

Q) new immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs
A) cities

Q) the main immigration processing station in san fransisco was named
A) andel island

Q) the smaller men in the room are
A) united states senators

Q) industrial workers of the world ( IWW) was organized by
A) radical unionists and socialsts.

Q) this new metal allowed the U.S to make skyscrapers and new forms of construction
A) steel

Q) what techonology most allowed factories to locate from rivers
A) electricity

Q) what would best reduce monopolies and trust?
A) competiton

Q) upton sinclairs book the jungle was responsible for this law
A) the meat inspection act

Q) settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate. who made these houses possible?
A) social reformers

Q) an old appartment usually occupies by poor people was called a
A) tenement

Q) upton sinclair wrote his book on what industry
A) the meat packing industry

Q) the gentlements agreement did what
A) decreased japanese immigration and/or desegregated SF classrooms

Q) which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones
A) railroads to help train travelers

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