Big Business & Immigration Review

Businesses adopted these production methods which helped to create products more quickly and easily.

• the wheel

• simple tools

• assembly line

What provided a source of laborers in the US for manufacturing?

• immigration

• food

• fuel

Policy of immigration, available natural resources, abundant food supply and government policies that support business are all factors that contribute to what?

• colonialization

• industrialization

• immigration

The rise of these came about after industrialization.

• Homestead Act

• Indian Removal Act

• labor unions

What are some reasons what immigrants moved to the US? (more than one answer)

• a need to escape poverty

• a need to move away from war

• to live with family

• a need to leave oppression

What was placed in the New York Harbor to welcome immigrants to the US?

• CN Tower

• Statue of Liberty

• The Hollywood Sign

Name two acts that were passed to control business practices that limited competition.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

• Education Land Grant Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

True or False: State and federal governments did not regulate child labor in the early 1900's.

• True

• False

Industrialists like Andrew Carnegie liked to​ (a)   their wealth with the ​ (b)   . One thing that he did was to​ (c)   educational institutions and​ (d)   .

• share
• fund
• community
• libraries
• close down
• hoard
• destroy
• ignore

When a labor union tried to strike, who group often times took action against them to stop them?

• the workers

• the government

• the mine workers