Unit 2 Chapter 1

Something that causes you to want to leave a place.

Example: civil unrest, high poverty, anti-semitism

• Push factor

• Pull factor

Something that draws you to move to a place.

Example: Factory jobs, letters from family, owning land.

• Pull factor

• Push factor

A time of rapid technological advancement

• The First Industrial Revolution

• The Second Industrial Revolution

A factor that drew many people to migrate to the US

• Hope for better economic opportunities

• To visit family

Most immigrants settled in the

• Northeast

• Northwest

Business owners hired children because

• They could pay them less

• They were less likely to strike

• Children make good workers

Many immigrants

• Had to live and work in unhealthy conditions

• Struggled to improve their standard of living

• Lived in healthy conditions

Railroads contributed to industrialization by

• Allowing new markets to open

• Made transportation faster

• Railroads did not contribute to industrialization

• Railroads were a failure

A business practice involving acquiring or merging with competitors

• Horizontal integrations

• Vertical integrations

The business practice involving a company acquiring other companies at different stages of production to gain control over the entire supply chain

• Vertical integrations

• Horizontal integrations