Social Studies test ASMS

Corporation

Business owned by many investors.

Entrepreneur

A person who organizes the resources necessary to produce goods and services.

Invest

To give money to company or bank.

Labor Union

Workers in the same trade or job to fight for better wages and working conditions.

Laissez-faire

A theory tat economies work best when there is minimal involvement from government.

Monopoly

A company that controls all production and sales.

Trust

A group of corporations that unite in order to reduce competition.

Urban

Relating cities.

Assimilation

Immigrants or other newcomers adapt the attitudes, behavior, and cultural patterns of the society around them.

Enriched

To make richer; enhance

Mutual

Shared.

Nativism

An attitude of resentment and superiority toward foreign born people.

Pogrom

An organized and violent persecution of a minority group.

Refugee

A person who flees his or her home country to escape war.

Vital

Necessary for the existence.

Rebate

A limit based on numbers of a country’s population allow immigrants to the united states.

What was an effect of the high tariffs that congress placed on imported goods after the civil war?

The cost of domestic goods increased.

Which of these describes the economic policy known as laissez-faire?

Government non-interference with business.

Which of these is an entrepreneur?

A successful business owner.

How were farms affected by the growth of big business?

New machinery was too expensive for commercial farms.

Which of these is an important aspect of industrialization?

Machine made products.

Who was responsible for developing the US steel industry?

Andrew Carnegie.

How did Thomas Edison improve the quality of life in the US cities?

By creating an electrical distribution system.

Mass production of goods affected life in the US in all these ways except?

Working conditions were better.

What was one purpose of the business organization known as the trust?

To control prices.

John D. Rockefeller was a giant in which industry?

Oil.

How did monopolies threaten the free-enterprise system?

By eliminating competition.

Which of these was effected of the rapid growth of cities due to industrilization?

Crowded tenement housing.

Who led the labor group called the “American Federation of Labor”?

Samuel Gompers.

What was the outcome of the Homestead Strike?

The union collapsed in defeat.

Labor unions were organized to represent the interest of?

Workers.

Which of these would have prevented the 1911 tragedy at the triangle factory in new york?

Keeping factory doors unlocked.

What does the cartoonist think of business trust?

They are too powerful.

What effect did trusts have on the political process?

They insured that bills were proposed to control business.

What did the US off immigrants that they could not get their homeland?

Plentiful jobs.

What did assimilation require if immigrants?

Adapting to a new way of life.

How are refugees differnet from other immigrants?

They are feeling to save their lives.

Why did immigrants form ethnic neighborhoods?

They were not accepted elsewhere.

Between 1880-1920, Europeans introduction to the US was at?

Ellis Island.

Which of these would prevent an immigrant from entering the US?

Failure to pass a health exam.

Why did many Jews emigrate from eastern europe?

To escape religious prosecution.

Which of these is true about most immigrants to the US?

they helped build the economy.

Compared to earlier immigrants, which of these describes those who arrived between 1880-1920?

They were more diverse.

Which of these was a result of immigration in the US?

Cultural diversity.

Why were US immigrants often met with resentment?

People thought they took jobs away from citizens.

Why did so many Mexicans come to the US between 1880-1920?

To search for gold.

Nativism is most closely related to which of these words?

Prejudice.