| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | A drastic change in factory production and inventions |
| Immigrant | Someone who leaves their country to settle somewhere else |
| Push Factor | Conditions that drive someone to leave their homeland |
| Pull Factor | Conditions that attract someone to a new country |
| Quota System | Limiting th enumber of immigrants allowed for a particular country |
| Monopoly | A company that controls all or nearly all the business of an industry |
| Trust | A group of corporations run by a single board of directors |
| Mass Production | Producing large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply |
| Assembly Line | Parts are added to product as it moves along a conveyor belt to cut production time |
| Robber barons | Big businessmen of the late 1800's such as Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie |
| Urbanization | The growth and development of cities |
| Knights of Labor | The first union formed in 1869 that sought to alleviate the poor work conditions in factories but lost memebership after the Haymarket Riot |
| American Federation of Labor | A union that was formed with its members as part of trade groups which became very powerful in the U.S. |
