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What were the two main immigrant processing centers and where were they located

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Angel island, off the coast of California in San Francisco and Ellis Island in New York

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Where were the new immigrants immigrating from

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Southern and eastern Europe, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Greece, Belarus

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How are Chinese immigrants discriminated against

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Received lower wages, faced violence, and the Chinese exclusion act bands Chinese immigration

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Why were cities divided by immigrant groups

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It’s made it easier to adjust, each group spoke their own language, they had similar cultures, and they practiced the same religion

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How did political machines gain power and control

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They provided needs,food and jobs ,in exchange for votes when the conditions are bad

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Why was the steel industry importance to the nation’s economic growth

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Durable steel rails, stronger bridges, more jobs thanks Andrew Carnegie, and skyscrapers

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What inventions encourage the growth of industry

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Relatable, telephone, Bessemer process, and motor vehicles

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How are monopolies harmful to the consumer

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They can allow for a high prices after eliminating competition

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What are the advantages of a corporation

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Cells stocks to raise lots of money, run by Board of Directors of that the company can continue if the founder dies, things are more likely to lend money to corporations, there are limited risks

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How did the Sears and Montgomery Ward change the way products were sold in the late 1800s

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Selling a mail order catalogs to advertise their products, which caused increased selling of products

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What were some of the factors that encouraged the rapid growth of business

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Financial resources lower production, modern transportation, mechanization , technology, national markets, raw materials, and an open workforce

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What was the result of mechanization in farming

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Decreased labor, easier and quicker labor, and urbanization

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What causes industries to grow rapidly

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Urbanization, increase in Nashville market, advertising, national resources, and the growing population

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What industry is associated with Chicago Illinois

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Meat packing

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What industry is associated with Detroit Michigan

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Motor

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What industry is associated with Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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Steel

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What industry is associated with the north east region

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Fabric, clothing, and or textiles

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What is the definition for trustbuster

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People who tried to regulate find companies, breaking up a trust and monopolies

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Push factor

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Conditions that drives people to leave their homes or countries

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Pull factor

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Conditions that attract people to a new area country

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Muckraker

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Journalists who uncovered the corruption of city politics and exposed to the public views that reform could take place

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Trust

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A legal body that is created it to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry, they are able to eliminate competition

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Monopoly

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A company that wipes out it’s competitors, and controls an industry

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Capital

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Money

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Corporation

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Business owned by investors (people who buy stock)

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Big business

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Large profitable industries with the significant amount of power and influence

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Thomas Edison

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Inventor of the lightbulb and many other invention: called the wizard of Menlo Park

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Harry Bessmer

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In English inventor: created the Bessemer process to make steel stronger

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Inventor of the telephone

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National market

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Consumers for a given product found all of the countries

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Prosperity

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Well and good economic times, most of the people who won jobs have them

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Workforce

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The available population of workers

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Industrialization

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The transition to an economy based on large businesses and factories rather than farming

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Whatproblems did immigrants face living in tenements

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Cramped, poorly lit, poor sanitation and no heat

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