the new american immigrants

1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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 union merged

1. In it's entirely laboor unions were good and why?
there were good because they fought for the rights of the employe


2.Describe the sweatshop and how 142 woman died in a fire. and how couldve that been prevented?
the sweatshop is where poeple live an work its a small building.

3. What is a scab and why woould unionized workers not like scabs?

4. Describe the type of people who who formed the IWW union? What does IWW mean?

hopelessly bound to the stake

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

• This cartoon signifies the cruel treatment by the wealthy industrialists toward their workers.

i choose this information cause it summarizze the picture

• These unions fought for better working conditions, higher wages, and shorter work days.

This is a big part of how jobs work today.

• Due to the ongoing tensions and pressures between the employers and the laborers, many strikes and riots erupted, plaguing the late nineteenth century with industrial unrest, and creating the stage for workers' reforms in the twentieth century.

i choose this piece of info because it tells how this age ended an started a new one.

o Were labor unions necessary? Why?

Yes because the industries treatment were unfair. so the unions fought for there fair treatment for there workers

o Did the government help make monopolies? How?

yes because the creator lf industries would send out their lowers to bribe political candidates to make sure there able to keep there monopolies.

o How did money in politics contribute to this cartoon? How has this changed?

they made their worker do harsh labor and gave low income. and job cants give ridicously low incomes and work hours.

rise of industry & monoplies

1. What were the three main causes of industrial growth in America?

     1. there was no interference made by the government

     2. abundant resources were available

     3. Urban population

2. Trust an monopolies during America early industrial age created tycoons who were making money from their ground up industries. tycoons became afraid of having competition so they started making monopolies. Monopolies are when you buy other companies so there is no competition. Monopolies were capable in that time due to lack of the government getting involved. Even though the senate made the Sherman anti-trust act it was weak. the tycoons would send out there accomplishes to the House of senate to bribe candidates.With these tycoon were able to maniuplated laws and be free to do what they wish.