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| Reasons for Increase in Immigration |
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1) Hope for better opportunities
2) Desire for religious freedom
3) Escape from oppressive governments
4) Desire for adventure |
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| Reasons Why Cities Grew and Developed |
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1) Specialized industries
2) Immigration to America from other countries
3) Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities |
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| Challenges for Industrialization and Urbanization |
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1) Overcrowded immigrant ghettos and tenements
2) Political corruption (political machines) |
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| Efforts to Solve Immigration Problems |
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1) Settlement houses such as the Hull house founded by Jane Addams
2) Political machines that gained power by attending to the needs of immigrants (such as jobs and housing) |
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| Reasons for the Rise of Big Business |
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1)National markets created by transportation (mail order)
2)Captains of industry
3)New inventions
4)Advertising
5)Lower cost production
6)Access to raw materials and energy
7) Availability of work force due to immigration
8) Financial Resources |
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| Captain of the oil industry |
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| Captain of the shipping industry |
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| Captain of the steel industry |
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| Electricity and Innovated the light bulb |
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| Original Inventor of the light bulb |
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| Reduced labor needs and increased production |
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| Effects of Industrialization |
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1)Low wages, long hours, child labor, and unsafe working conditions
2)American Federation of Labor and other unions
3)Homestead strike caused a dislike of unions |
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| It gave women the right to vote |
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| It wanted to ban the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States. |
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| The time when the shipping, production, and consumption of alcohol illegal called prohibition |
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| He believed equality could be achieved by vocational education |
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| He believed in political, social, and civil rights for African Americans |
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| Crowded immigrant neighborhood |
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| Crowded, dirty, unsafe, apartments for immigrants |
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| Education in trade such as farming |
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