Chapter 11 Industry and Immigration Study Guide
Lesson 1 Inventors and Inventions
- Communicate that Americans developed new inventions that changed life in the United States and around the world.
- Analyze and explain what the sentence “Inventions shrink distances” means with examples to support your answer.
- Be familiar with Edison, Bell, the Wright Brothers, and Morse inventions and the effect they had on life and people.
Vocabulary: consumer, telegraph, investor, profit
Lesson 2 The Impact of Big Business
- Communicate how the growth of big business had a great impact on life in America.
- Recognize the cause and effect of how new inventions lead to urbanization.
- Compare and contrast the costs and benefits of cities with important industries.
Vocabulary: urbanization, entrepreneur, corporation, stock, assembly line, refinery, monopoly
Lesson 3 Immigration
- Communicate that some of the costs and benefits of being an immigrant.
- Conclude why some of the new immigrants might not try to fit in in America.
- Discuss how America’s growth may have benefited people from other countries.
- Analyze why immigrants left their home countries and what they might have been hoping to find in America
- Discuss why people may have wanted immigration to decrease
Vocabulary: diversity, prejudice, oppression, tenement, labor union, melting pot
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