2. Quiz Ch 14 Workers
1. Steel company’s worker strike (H S)
2. What type of worker where mostly hired during the 1900 (I)
3. Law that made monopoly illegal (S A A)
4. Railroad sleeping car owner laid off 1/3 of its workers (P S)
5. Organizations that aid workers (L U)
6. Founder of American Federation of Labor (S G)
7. A bomb was thrown that killed eleven people (H R)
8. Work stoppage (S)
9. More than 150 women dies in a fire accident (T F)
10. The first major strike where workers of railroads wage was
cut (G R S)
3. The new immigrants
• They were Catholics,
Orthodox Christians
and Jews.
• Most settled in the
cities
4. Ellis Island
(New York)
• Gateway to
the land of
opportunity
• East Coast
immigrants
from Southern
and Eastern
Europe.
• Irish and
Russian,
Italian and
Hungarian
6. • Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or
held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time.
• they were asked 29 questions including name, occupation, and the
amount of money they carried with them.
• Generally those immigrants who were approved spent from two to
five hours at Ellis Island.
• However more than three thousand would-be immigrants died on
Ellis Island while being held in the hospital facilities.
• Some unskilled workers were rejected outright because they were
considered "likely to become a public charge." About 2 percent were
denied admission to the U.S. and sent back to their countries of
origin for reasons such as chronic contagious disease, criminal
background, or insanity.
• Ellis Island was sometimes known as "The Island of Tears" or
"Heartbreak Island" because of those 2% who were not admitted
after the long transatlantic voyage.
7.
8.
9. One of many tests used to decide whether an
immigrant had any mental problems.
13. Statue of Liberty
• Immigrants greeted by
the Statue of Liberty.
• a gift from France
• Frederic Bartholdi
designed and sculpted
the statue.
• a symbol of liberty.
• seven spikes in the
statue's crown stand
for seven liberties:
civil, moral, national,
natural, personal,
political, and religious.
14. LADY LIBERTY
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door."
Images courtesy of the National Park Service/Ellis Island
15. Angel Island
• West Coast
immigrants were
processed in San
Francisco
• East Asian (Chinese
and Japanese)
16. Melting Pot
• A mixture of
people with
different culture
blended together
• Abandons their
native language
and culture
• the blending or
fusing of minority
groups into the
dominant society
Assimilation
17. Anti- immigrants
• Nativism
– native-born
Americans saw
immigrants as
threats to
society.
– felt immigrants
brought crime
and poverty
– accepted jobs
for lower wages,
– Compete for jobs
