A New Industrial Revolution
The main city that made steel and the name of the process that produced steel stronger at a lower cost.
What is Pittsburgh
One of the most hated and richest business giants that created an oil industry by forming the Standard Oil Trust.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What is the name for the rapid growth of city populations.
What is Urbanization?
The part of the ship that would hold large amounts of immigrants headed to the United States. This part of the ship was tight and airless and was originally designed to hold cattle.
What is the steerage?
The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
What is a patent?
Businesses owned by many investors.
What are corporations?
These two technological advances allowed cities to spread out and up during this time period.
What are subways and skyscrapers?
The process of immigrants trying to become more American.
What is Assimilation
What times did students have to attended school until?
When is 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
The person who invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The idea that the strongest people - and businesses - will survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
When one company controls the entire market for a particular product.
What is a monopoly?
Many Americans did not want immigrants to come to the U.S. If they did come, they wanted the immigrants to become part of the American culture and leave their own culture behind. These people are called _____________.
What are nativists?
This is a style of writing in which writers try to capture life as it actually is.
What is realism?
Someone who starts his own business with the hopes of making money.
What is an entrepreneur?
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
What is Free Enterprise?
These groups formed to protect workers rights.
What are unions?
The test in order to become a citizen
What is the ctizenship test?
This famous realist wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Who is Mark Twain?
The two brothers that made the first airplane and the place they tested out this plane.
What are Wilbur and Orville Wright , North Carolina.
This was a striker's union formed in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded by Samuel Gompers and only admitted skilled workers.
What is AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
Improvements towards urban life.
What is the addition of streetlights, fire and police departmets
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is an anarchist?
_________ created the first mass-circulation newspaper. His type of sensational writing was called ________ and his/her newspaper was called _____________.
What is Joseph Pulitzer, Yellow Journalism, and the New York World?