US Social Studies Review Sheet (Modules 20 & 21) PDF

Social Studies Review Sheet: Modules 20 & 21 Define all terms and answer all questions on a separate document Industrialization and Big Business Patent assembly line corporation stock monopoly trust free enterprise system “robber baron” Sherman Antitrust A...

Social Studies Review Sheet: Modules 20 & 21 Define all terms and answer all questions on a separate document Industrialization and Big Business Patent assembly line corporation stock monopoly trust free enterprise system “robber baron” Sherman Antitrust Act - “captain of industry” vertical integration laissez faire What are the advantages to businesses that use mass production and the assembly line? What exactly is a corporation? How does a corporation function? How might monopolies be dangerous to citizens and workers in society? What was the Sherman Antitrust Act? How would you define laissez faire capitalism? Why is laissez faire capitalism and so important to the growth of big business? Know who Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan were, and what they did they do to contribute to the development of monopolies and big business? Labor Labor union American Federation of Labor collective bargaining strikebreakers What are strikebreakers? How were they utilized by big business? How is collective bargaining helpful to Unions? How did labor unions work for better rights in the workplace? Why do you think unions were so important to laborers in the late 19th century? How did the government respond to railroad strikes? Why did labor unions experience so much difficulty in the late 1800s? Why did some Americans begin to fear labor unions in the late 1800s? Immigration Assimilation “new immigrants” nativism Chinese Exclusion Act Within New York City where did most immigrants live? How did the “new immigrants” differ from the immigrants who arrived in the mid-1800s? Why did nativists oppose immigration? How did nativists oppose immigration? Urbanization Urbanization tenements settlement house Jane Addams Hull House What led to urbanization (development and increase of cities)? What were the problems that developed because of urbanization? What increase because of urbanization? (Population, buildings, diseases, etc.)