Immigrants
Business
Urban Life
New Inventions and Inventors
Vocabulary
100
Where european immigrants register before coming to America.
What was Ellis Island?
100
John D. Rockerfeller and Andrew Carnegie.
Who were the two most famous big business owners?
100
more jobs; they attracted industry, which then attracted people; people found that jobs in the cities were exciting; and easy transportation.
What is the reason people came to cities?
100
The vehicle invented by Henry Ford in the 1900s
What is the car?
100
A term that critics coined to describe the sensational reporting style of the New York World and other papers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
Where most of the immigrants came from.
Where is Europe?
200
These corporations lent huge amounts of capital to corporations and made huge profits for the bankers?
What was the job of banks?
200
The electric streetcar system, and subway trains
What were the two new transportations that helped cities grow?
200
The first to invent human flight in 1903. They made the first successful flight in kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who were the Wright Brothers?
200
It is a writer who tries to show life like it is.
What is Realist?
300
what the following have in common: jobs, money, food, education, and freedom.
What is they were pull factors of coming to America?
300
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
What is a trust?
300
No money, expensive housing, diseases, & low wage jobs.
Why there were so many poor people before the 1880s?
300
It a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
What is the patent?
300
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is Anarchist?
400
they sought to preserve the country and the country's culture. they also didnt want jobs to be taken away from americans.
Who were the Nativists?
400
a new phillosophy, at the time, that supportedthe trend towards trusts and applied the idea of "survival of the fittest" to human affairs.
What is social darwinism?
400
A skyscraper.
What was the 10 story building that was built in 1885 called?
400
The lightbulb was considered extra light for __________ and ______________.
What is work, leisure?
400
The definition of entreprenuer.
Who is someone that sets up a new buisness to make a prophit.
500
twenty five million
What is the number of iimigrants that eneterd the country between the years of 1865 and 1915?
500
it is something that unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.
What is collective bargaining?
500
She opened a settlement house in the slums of Chicago and taught english, sposored music, and provided nureries for children.
Who was Jane Addams?
500
George Eastman invented the camera. This brand is the first brand of camera.
What is the Kodak Camera?
500
Compulsory Education.
What is a requirement that children attend school up to a certain age?
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