SS Super Vocab Chapter 21 and 20
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- Nativists
- People who express an anti-foreign belief. People who are opposed to immigration.
- Collective Bargaining
- The right to negotiate with management for workers as a group
- Anarchist
- Someone who is opposed to all government
- Push Factor
- Conditions that drive people from their homes
- Settlement House
- Community center organized in the late 1800s to offer services to the poor
- Capital
- Money
- Andrew Carnegie
- Steel, 250 million
- Pull Factor
- Conditions that attract immigrants to a new area
- Ellis Island
- An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
- Jay Gould
- Railroads, Telegraph, 72 million
- Statue of Liberty
- A large statue symbolizing hope and freedom on Liberty Island in New York Harbor
- John D. Rockefeller
- Oil, 900 million
- Sweatshop
- A workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low wages
- Corporation
- A business owned by investors
- Network
- A series of connected railroad lines which make navigating around them easier
- Urbanization
- Movement of population from farms to cities
- Know-Nothing Party
- Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Shipping, Railroads, 105 million
- Stock
- Shares in a business
- Gentlemen's Agreement
- A 1907 agreement between the US and Japan to limit Japanese immigration
- Tenements
- Small apartments in a city slum building
- Hull House
- Settlement house founded by progressive reformer Jane Adams in Chicago in 18889
- Trust
- A group of companies controlled by a single board of directors
- Mass Production
- Making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
- Consolidate
- Combining companies
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States
- J.P. Morgan
- Finance, 119 million
- Free enterprise system
- The ability to go into business for yourself
- Laissiez-faire capitalism
- A policy in which the government does not take a role in economic affairs
- Vertical Integration
- Controlling all steps used to change raw materials to finished projects
- Rebate
- Discounts granted to the biggest customers
- Jacob Riis
- A reporter who wrote about the problems in overcrowded cities, and shocked his readers
- Dividend
- Shares of a corporations profit
- Acculturation
- Process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to a new culture
- Assembly Line
- Production where the products move past the workers and are built and assembled step by step
- Trade Union
- A union of people in the same trade
- Pool
- Dividing up business for an area
- Monopoly
- A company having control of an entire industry
- Angel Island
- A receiving station on the west coast, active after 1910, and allowed immigrants from Asia to enter the US
- Building Codes
- Standards for construction and safety of buildings
- American Protective Association
- An organization created by nativists in 1887 that campaigned for laws to restrict immigration
- Pogroms
- Organized attacks on Jewish communities in Eastern Europe