Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
Vocabulary Part 3
People
People Part 2
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What is a patent?
What is A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention
100
What were tenements?
What are buildings divided into many tiny apartments
100
What is a corporation?
What is a business owned by many investors
100
The most popular author of the time
Who is Mark Twain
100
Who tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
Who is Wilbur and Orville Wright
200
What is a monopoly?
What is A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
200
What was a settlement house?
What is A center offering help to the urban poor.
200
The rapid growth of city populations
What is urbanization
200
Who set up the “invention factory” in Menlo Park, New Jersey which produced the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and hundreds of other devices?
Who is Thomas Edison
200
What banker made himself the most powerful force in the American Economy?
Who is J. Pierpont Morgan
300
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
What is a trust
300
The process of becoming part of another culture.
What is assimilation
300
What was steerage?
What is large compartments that usually held cattle.
300
Who invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
300
Who made the automobile available to millions?
Who is Henry Ford
400
What is free enterprise?
What is The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
400
A person who opposes all forms of government
What is an anarchist
400
The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age
What is compulsory education
400
Who invented the Type-Writer?
Who is Christopher Sholes
400
Who invented the game of basketball?
Who is James Naismith
500
Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
What is an entrepreneur
500
The sensational reporting style of the New York World and other newspapers
What is yellow journalism
500
Who were the realists?
What is writers who show life as it is
500
What was invented by George Eastman?
What is a smaller camera
500
Who was Paul Laurence Dunbar?
Who is the first African American to learn a living as a writer
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