Population Growth
The single biggest reason for the growth of the American population in the 19th century.
Immigration
One reason traveling long distances by rail was difficult in the early 1800s.
most track was in the East
Who invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
The New York Harbor location where most European immigrants entered America
Ellis Island
Deposits of gold, silver, or copper
lodes
One value-based reason that helped U.S. industries grow.
American values
Another reason early train travel was difficult.
There were no bridges across certain bridges
Who is known for his work with electricity
Thomas Edison
The 1882 law that drastically reduced legal Chinese immigration.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The combining of smaller railroad lines into one
consolidation
One natural factor that supported industrial growth
The problem caused by the distance between railroad tracks varying
trains couldn’t travel freely across the country
Who invented the air brake for trains?
George Westinghouse
The Bible verse (Exodus 23:9) warned against mistreating this group of people
immigrants or foreigners
The railroad that tracked westward using Irish workers and war veterans
Union Pacific
How some employers treated immigrant workers unjustly.
paying them lower wages and threatening them with loss of work if they objected to long hours or poor conditions
What the federal government gave builders of the transcontinental railroad
money and land
Who invented the Pullman sleeping car?
George Pullman
The condition in which a variety of religious beliefs are accepted in a society
religious pluralism
The railroad that tracked eastward using Chinese laborers
Central Pacific
One reason some Americans objected to immigrants arriving in the U.S.
they feared immigrants took jobs and opposed their lifestyles?
The entrepreneur who built the Great Northern Railroad without government funds
James J Hill
What made James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railroad unique among others of the time
He built it without taking government funds
Why established Americans sometimes opposed immigrant lifestyles.
cultural fear or prejudice
The Great Northern Railroad crossed this major (belt) agricultural region.
wheat belt