Inventions
Who was from Menlo park, New jersey? Hint they invented the lightbulb.
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Define Diveristy:
a variety of people
What tire company did we learn about that is still around today?
Firestone
Who was the potato king?
George Shima
Name the first recording device
Phonograph
What family member of Grahambell helped run his telephone company?
His wife
What is a melting pot?
The mixing of multiple cultures
The most important recourse at the time? Hint it was used to run everything, you have a cooking version of it
oil
How did immigrants decide where to live? How did they group themselves?
By the same culture/ home country
How does the Morse code work? (What is it made of to communicate the sounds)
Dots and dashes
What man made the first steel plants?
Andrew Carnegie
What are entrepreneurs?
People who have a business idea and start it from the ground up
What is a monopoly?
a business that has total control of a industry
What gift was given to the U.S. by France? What did it symbolize?
The Statue of Liberty, the founding idols of our nation (what America Represents)
What did Alexander Grahambell say on the first phone call
"Mr. Watson come here I want to see you"
Who help Thomas Edison make a longer lasting light build? (Give full name)
George Washington Carver
What is a corporation?
Business owned by stock holders
What was the census?
Data collection of all people living in the united states
Name of of the Islands immigrants entered from?
Ellis island or Angel Island
How did phone calls work in the begining? ( Who were the people that had to move things) Name the people and the object
operators had to plug and unplug cords to connect calls
Who took photographs and brought light to the poor living conditions of immigrants?
Jacob Riis
Who are consumers?
The people who buy or use a product
What was the Bessemer process
the metal was melted in huge egg shaped pots and poured to make steel
What was the Chinese exclusion act of
chinese immigrants were banned from entering the country to work for 10 years