Born in Loudonville, Ohio, he invented the automobile self starter
Who is Charles Kettering?
100
People can come here to receive sevices such as, education, free meals, and health care.
What is a settlement house?
100
This is the place where crude oil is changed into a usable product.
What is a refinery?
100
The oil company relied heavily on these two forms of transportation.
What are railroads and oil tankers?
100
Overcrowded conditions, wide use of open flames for heating and lighting created a need for this service or department.
What is fire department?
200
In 1888 I moved my glass factory to Toledo, soon to be known as "Glass City."
Who is Edward Libbey?
200
This city is know as "Rubber City," thanks to B.F. Goodrich and his rubber company.
What is Akron?
200
This term that describes the protection of public health through cleanliness, became a major problem of fast growing cities.
What is sanitation?
200
Ohio's location on these two major bodies of water contributed to the rise of industry in the late 1800s
What is Lake Erie and Ohio River?
200
Before being refined into gasoline to power cars, oil was mainly used in this form for heating and lighting.
What is kerosene?
300
I "cashed" in on a mechanical drawer company, renamed it the National Cash Register Company, and soon supplied stores worldwide.
Who is John H. Patterson?
300
Iron ore was discovered here in 1844 creating the rise of the steel industry in Cleveland, Youngstown, and Canton.
What is Lake Superior?
300
These electric rail cars improved local transportation, allowing people to live further away from their jobs, in turn easing the over-crowding problem.
What are trolleys?
300
The rise of this industry, centered in the state up north, relied heavily on the major industries of Ohio (glass, rubber, oil, and steel).
What is the automobile industry?
300
Newly acquired freedom and the lure of jobs and opportunities brought this group to Ohio from the south.
Who are African-Americans?
400
In order to make the streets of Cleveland safer, I invented the electric arc light in 1879, making the city the first in the world with the sight.
Who is Charles Brush?
400
This Ohio city experienced a boom, or rapid business growth, following a 1884 discovery of natural gas.
What is Findlay?
400
This is the limiting of competition, setting high prices and, maintaining control over the supplies.
What is monopoly?
400
A large number of immigrants came to Ohio's cities from this continent during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Europe?
400
The discovery of this in Lima added to the monopoly already held by Rockefeller.
What is Oil?
500
During the 1880s, my company, Standard Oil Company, was the center of the nation's oil refining industry and by 1892 the Supreme Court had ruled my company had monopolized the industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
The Winton Motor Carriage Company, one of the first companies to manufacture gasoline powered cars, opened in this city by Alexander Winton in1897.
What is Cleveland?
500
Along with rubber, oil, and glass, this was a major industry in Ohio, beginning around 1870.
What is steel?
500
Other than religious or political freedoms, these drew people to the cities.
What are factories (jobs)?
500
Higher than any other time in history, by 1900 this percent of people were living in cities.