Industrial Revolution
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention
Patent
This Technology helped cities grow. Multiple possible answers
Elevated train cars, electric street cars, and electric subway trains
Many businesses became these _______, businesses owned by many investors
Corporations
These three things were common reasons for migration:
lack of Jobs, Religious Persecution, and Political Unrest
Before 1870, Fewer than half of American children went to _________
School.
This process was a method to make stronger steel at a low cost.
The Bessemer Process
This material allowed for bridges and skyscrapers to be built, allowing for the expansion of cities.
steel
A ________ is a company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
Monopoly
Home, family, and friends
These three Rs were subjects studied during the school day.
Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.
This material replaced Iron as the basic building material of cities and industries
Steel
These allowed for easier transportation amongst floors of a skyscraper
Elevators
Businessmen and Investors crushed competitors by ________ ________.
temporarily slashing prices
In these __________ volunteers taught English to immigrants, sponsored music and sports for young people, and provided nurseries for children of working mothers.
Settlement Houses
libraries
Companies for these added sleeping cars and dining cars, and laid down thousands of miles of new tracks during this time.
Railroad Companies
By 1900, half of the worlds ______ were printed in the United States
Newspapers
This group of people worked in industry, often in hazardous jobs until state legislatures were pressured to outlaw this type of labor.
Child/children
_______ is the process of becoming part of another culture.
Assimilation
Dime Novels
The communications revolution improved communications for American businesses through these inventions: ________, ___________, _________
Compulsory Education was a requirement that all children attended __________ up to a certain age.
During the industrial revolutions, workers in big industries organized these to seek safer working conditions, higher wages, and shorter hours.
labor unions
These departments were built to ease health and safety issues that arose during urbanization.
Police, fire, and sanitation
____ ______ World was the name of the first modern, mass-circulation newspaper created by Hungarian immigrant, Joseph Pulitzer.
New York