Big Business
Pittsburgh
Reasons why people immigrated to America
Push Pull Factors
Company that controls all business in a certain industry
Monopoly
Invented the light bulb and opened nation's first electrical power plant
Thomas Edison
List 3 leisure activities of the early 1900s
Department Stores, Parks, Circus, Zoo, Baseball, Orchestra, Theater
2 developments that led to transportation revolution
Railroad expansion, Assembly Line, Cars Mass Production
Most European immigrants in the US landed at this facility
Ellis Island
Law that made younger people go to school
Compulsory Education
Built a steel empire in Pittsburgh
Andrew Carnegie
Protection for a new invention so someone does not steal your idea
Patent
2 Devices that helped improve communication for American Business
Typewriter, Phone, Camera, Telegraph
Name 3 problems of urban life in the US during the Industrial Revolution
Crowded neighborhoods, Fire, Disease, Streets filled with garbage, etc.
Person who sets up new businesses to make a profit
Entrepreneur
Inventor of the telephone who revolutionized communication
Alexander Graham Bell
Name 2 factors that contributed to growth of US cities between 1860 and 1890
Industry, big cities were near water, cities able to grow upward
Name for group of corporations with 1 board of directors
A Trust
Term for a person who thought immigrants were stealing jobs from other people, why are these people ironic
Nativist, ironic because we are a nation of immigrants
Settlement House
Was in charge of the company standard oil
John Rockefeller
Largest workplace incident in history of NYC before 9-11 was where/who mostly died in incident
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Women
Most Profitable company in the US today
Apple
Asian immigrants typically went where, and what city was that located in
Angel Island, San Francisco
Author of the Book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, What was the author's pen name
Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens
Started the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
The Transcontinental Railroad (last unit) went across the country and connected where?
Promontory Point, Utah