QUIZ #3 STUDY GUIDE:

INDUSTRIALIZATION & IMMIGRATION

Industrialization= growth of manufacturing/factories/industry in

America
New industries: oil, steel, railroads, textiles, etc.
****Created jobs****
***Caused millions of people to move to cities***
(Urbanization = growth of cities)
New Inventions: Airplane, Automobile, Kinetoscope, Electric
Lamp, Telephone, Skyscraper
Effects of Industrialization
Positive
Negative
More Jobs
Pollution
More goods produced (became
Unsafe working conditions/long
more affordable)
hours/low wages/child labor
Economic growth
Overcrowding

During the late 1800-early 1900s, millions of immigrants came to

the U.S.
Old vs. New Immigrants
Old Immigrants: arrived before 1880; from Northern/Western
Europe (Ireland, England, Germany); adapted quickly to
American culture; mostly white Protestant
New Immigrants: arrived 1880-1910; from Southern/Eastern
Europe and China(Russia, Italy, Greece, Slavic nations, China);
held on to native cultures; different from Americans in terms of
culture and appearance
Ellis Island: station in New York Harbor through which all new
immigrants had to pass
Ellis Island Experience (passage, medical exam, legal inspection,
detainees, etc)
Push vs Pull Factors
Push Factors: Things that force immigrants to leave their
homeland.
- Examples: War, Violence, Famine (Hunger), Natural Disasters,
Poverty

Pull Factors: Things that attract immigrants to a new country

- Examples: Safety, Peace, Stability, Jobs, Food, Freedom

Immigrant Life:

Lived in crowded tenement houses

Worked long hours in unsafe factories for low wages
Nativism = discrimination against immigrants