People and Inventions
This inventor experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph.
Thomas Edison.
An economic system in which the people own the country's goods and businesses.
Capitalism.
Write the name for the time of prosperity in the United States during the late 1800s.
The Gilded Age
Define social Darwinism in one or two sentences.
Social Darwinism is the idea that society follows ‘survival of the fittest,’ meaning the rich or powerful are seen as naturally superior; it was promoted by thinkers like Herbert Spencer.
He was America’s most important manufacturer of steel and later gave much money to libraries and schools.
Andrew Carnegie
A business that is owned by many people (owners buy shares).
Corporation.
Name two popular cities where many immigrants settled during the Gilded Age.
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco
An organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force employers to change is called this
Labor union
The person who first patented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell.
A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation is called this.
Trust
What problems resulted from the rapid growth of cities? Answer in a complete sentence.
Cities became crowded and harder to keep clean; housing was difficult to provide, and many children from poor families had to work to help support their families.
Who built the Great Northern Railway and earned the nickname “Empire Builder”?
James J. Hill
The inventor of the typewriter that first used the QWERTY keyboard.
Christopher Sholes.
This man led America’s oil industry and became very wealthy from it.
John D. Rockefeller.
Jane Addams’s Hull-House offered services to immigrant women. Name one service it offered
Childcare or medical care (also cooking lessons are acceptable — the test lists childcare and medical care
Name a muckraker or reformer who exposed poor living or working conditions during this era
Jacob Riis
Name two inventions created by Thomas Edison.
the practical incandescent light (electric light) and the phonograph. (Also accept motion-picture improvements; accept any two Edison inventions.)
The law passed to limit monopoly power and restrain anti-competitive trusts (name the act).
The Sherman Antitrust Act.
During the Gilded Age, why did many people move from rural areas into cities
People moved to cities for jobs in factories and better economic opportunities
Who wrote articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at its word
D. L. Moody, B. B. Warfield, Ira Sankey