Inventions
Industrial Revolution
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
People, Places, Terms
100
He worked day and night in the candlelight to create this invention. This invention changed the country forever.
What is Thomas Edison's light bulb
100
The country in which the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Great Britain?
100
Word that means money used to invest in a business.
What is Capital?
100
in an attempt to limit immigration into the country the U.S. government passed a several laws to restrict the number immigrants entering the country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act or the Gentlemen's Agreement?
100
Production shifted from simple hand tools to these
What are complex machines?
200
An invention by Samuel FB. Morse. His invention sent messages in code in a matter of seconds.
What is the telegraph?
200
Type of engine that helped boats and machines operate more efficiently. (hint: it's one of the 3 forms of water)
What is a steam engine?
200
Private roads built by entrepreneurs who charged travelers a fee to use them.
What are turnpikes?
200
This new material was made out of iron ore. Iron ore was a plentiful resource in the U.S. All that was needed to make this was cheap labor and manufacturing. Hint: Pittsburgh became a popular town because they had massive amounts of coal and iron.
What is the steel industry?
200
2 brothers who invented the airplane
Who are the Wright Brothers?
300
2 forms of transportation that people used to travel between countries and continents.
What are trains or steamships?
300
2 forms of transportation that people used to travel between countries and continents.
What is/are trains or steamships?
300
A system of transportation that connected the East and West Coasts of the nation.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
In 1892, this group demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers and to give people a bigger voice in government.
What are populists
300
He invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
Used to prevent pain during surgery.
What is anasthetic?
400
Making young citizens work under dangerous conditions in factories. Americans were frowned upon or accepted by this depending on different countries' opinions. Mother Jones was a big part in ending this and other hazardous working conditions. She was also involved in the labor march of 1903.
What is child labor?
400
Immigration was opposed by a movement that began in New York in 1843.
What is the Nativist Movement?
400
An invention for people to get to work faster and live farther from their jobs. This invention was affordable to the wealthy so they were able to move out of the city. This left the poor back in the city, which made the crime rate go up. This man believes "Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” (Quote 1)
What is the automobile invented by Henry Ford
400
A man whose business tactics were not appreciated. (He sold oil for a small price and when he beat out other companies, he rose the price). This was a consequence to people who could no longer afford his oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
This process made the production of steel more economical (affordable). It made it easier and cheaper to produce in large quantities.
What is the Bessemer process?
500
He made the steam engine operate even better. A measure of electrical power was named after him.
Who is James Watt?
500
Native American children were forced to attend white boarding schools where they were forced to give up their heritage and culture and become more "white". This process (noun) is referred to as what?
What is assimilation?
500
Type of doctor who invented anasthetic.
What is a dentist?
500
In the late mid to late 1800s as the Industrial Revolution spread across the country white settlers wanted lands occupied by Native Americans. This "problem" was commonly known as
What is the "Indian Problem"?
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