The New American Immigrants

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1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization? * Select the best answer

• A. Native-born Americans wanted to assimilate people from other cultures into the dominant culture
• B. Native-born Americans wanted the immigrants to practice their customs
• C. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants skills needed for citizenship
• D. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants cooking skills

2. What were cities most like for the new immigrants coming to America? * Select the best answer

• A. Clean and welcoming
• B. Healthy, with clean water
• C. Immigrants would most likely have had to dodge horse manure
• D. Plenty of single-family homes

3. What would best describe the cities to a new immigrant? * Select the best answer

• A. Pickpockets and thieves were plenty
• B. Plenty of police harassing new immigrants
• C. All the clean water was dedicated to fighting fires
• D. Running water and plumbing worked 60% of the time

4. Why did immigrants move to the cities in the first place? * Select the best answer

• A. Plenty of work in the factories
• B. Cheap housing
• C. Plenty of room in tenements
• D. A & B only

5. People moved from the farms to the cities because? * Select the best answer

• A. Less segregation and discrimination in the cities
• B. Farming technology improved
• C. Wood plows were being made in the cities
• D. None of the above

Labor Unions Emerge

1. Based upon what I have read, labor unions were good because workers were trying to get out of how they were, like for example they had horrible and dangerous working conditions. The labor unions helped them change by eliminating many of the bad things that workers went through.

  2.  The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because the building was on fire and they jumped out of a 9 story building so because they didn't want to get burned to death. These deaths could have been prevented if the fire departments ladder was longer.

3.Monopolists did not want unions because they would have to pay workers more money and have to waste money fixing working conditions. Union members did not like scabs because they were afraid that they might take their jobs for a lower wage.

4.Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because they were socialists and welcomed African Americans.                                                    

                                                                                                                         



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Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

1.What are the three pieces of information you chose? Why did you choose the three?

- "Laborers were bound inevitably bound to their company through debt" 

-"The poor were stuck in a rut"

-"Workers thought they would prevail through strikes and boycotts but their employees were able to outsmart them with scabs"

I chose those three because it relates to what happened to the workers, and how they suffered in the many ways they got treated.


2. Were labor unions necessary? why?
- Labor unions were necessary because workers wanted to get paid higher wages and work less hours.They also wanted better working conditions.


3. Did the government help make monopolies?how?
- The government did help make monopolies because people with money can do what they want, meaning that if they wanted to contribute in the making of any law, they could pay so they could be there to make sure the law they wanted was made.


4. How did money in politics contribute to this cartoon? How has this changed?
- The monopolies used money to do what they wanted meanwhile the poor people had no business in anything because they were helpless from the rich people doing and making the decisions they wanted. This has changed because the workers aren't getting treated the way they used to get treated before, because now the workers have a say and can complain if they want to if something is not right without getting in trouble. 

Are The Old Bosses Still in Charge

-The special interest group is the loudest in government.

-The setting for the cartoon is in the house of the senate.

-The monopolists entrance is open and the peoples entrance is closed.

-The large men at the back of the room represent the monopolists and they represent the special interest group.

-The large men would be there in the first place because they are there to influence the senators.

Rise of Industry & Monopolies

1. what were the three main causes of industrial growth in america?
         natural resources
        government support
        urban population

2. Trusts and monopolies during America's early industrial age created?
     They created good and bad things. For example there were taller buildings made called skyscrapers.Also the Bessemer Process came to be. Some examples of the bad things was the share of wealth, was unequal between people. There were poor people because of greediness from the monopolies.  It also created working for people longer with low wages and bad working conditions. People who wanted to start monopolies had to take drastic measures in order to start it. For example some rich people would start a fire in a business so the owner would have to sell his property to him and so the rich people could continue building they're monopoly, so the owners went out of business. Trusts and monopolies had both negative and positive effects on our country.

Because Of Electricity

Lighbulb invented
drastically improved lives

    longer job hours

Electricity became one of the  improvements of industrialism. Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb thanks to the power of electricity. Not only that, it also helped produce consumer industries. It also improved people's lives and because of electricity, electric streetcars made travel cheap and efficient.

"Mayor events before the civil war"

Around 1858, the United States was divided geographically-north and south with the south that depended on agriculture and slave labor, and the north became more industrialized. They both had different religions, climates etc. They believed in different things and opinions. The south got slaves to do many of the agriculture things. The north didn't at all depend on slaves because they were against that and was more modern and improved.
         The country was so divided by the issue of slavery, California needed the compromise of 1850 in order to become a state. There was an argument about this and if the north and south didnt agree on the compromise then California wouldnt be able to become a state so it had to be through popular soverinty.
         Around this time, many southerners were considering secession. Many thought that slavery was the problem between states rights of self determination and federal government control. So they decided to act.
         Many people from the north hated slavery, so they helped slaves become free. Those people were called abolitionists. They helped slaves escape through the underground railroad. Abolitionists risked their own lives to help slaves become free because they hated slavery.
         When  Uncle Tom's Cabin was published, it angered northern abolitionists because they already hated slavery. Southerners were annoyed because it criticized their way of living. The south thought it was an attack on them on how they work things. It increased the north to increase protests against the fugitive slave act.
         Two politicians became famous for they slavery debates which were Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Lincoln debated that he didnt want slavery. He wanted to abolish it. On the other hand, Douglas didnt want slavery either but it was the states decision to decide whether or not they wanted slavery.
         On December 20, 1860 Lincoln won and the first state to secede was South Carolina. Afterwards, more southern states followed in the South Carolina's footsteps. They saw that slavery was eventually going to come to an end so they knew they would economically have trouble and so decided to secede.