Unit Exam Study Guide

• new immigrants moved to cities because there was many jobs and it was cheap
• the law that was enacted to decrease chinese immigration in the U.S was the Chinese Exclusion Act
• upton sinclairs book was responsible for the Meat Inspection Act
• immigrants arrived to the U.S via steamships in 1870s
• the Gentlemens Agreement Act decreased Japanese immigration an desegregated SF classrooms
• the smaller men in the room are the US senators
• settlemt houses helped new immigrants assimlate;Social Reformers made these houses
• the main purpose of Americanization movement was so they could learn the customs and culture of Americans
• IWW was organized by socialist and Radical Unionist
• the illegal use of political power for personal gain is Graft
• the new metal that allowed the construction of of skyscrapers was steel
• the industry that would most benefit by standardized time zones was railroads inorer to help train travelers
• the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for a shameful fire that killed 146 women
• an old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a tenement
• competition would best reduce monopolies and trusts
• Scabs were people that were used to break labor strikes by working for less money
• the Sherman Antitrusts Act was created to outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition
• Tammany Hall was a famous NYC political machine
• Patronage is putting a friend into a job
• upton sinclair wrote his book on the meat packing industry