Products
Question: Invention that improved the life of factory workers by allowing them to work longer hours into the night.
What is the light bulb
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This group of people fueled the growth of cities and mass production. They were mostly Southern and Eastern Europeans.
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What is immigration
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The exploitation of young children, starting as early as 10, long hours and harsh conditions.
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What is Child Labor
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The idea that the struggling and poor should not be provided any extra help. Brought the idea of “survival of the fittest” into context with human beings.
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What is Social Darwinism.
Question: Who developed the light bulb?
Answer: Who is Thomas Edison.
Question: What invention allowed people to communicate over long distances that became more popular than the telegraph?
Answer: What is the telephone
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This was the biggest business in America at the time. Its expansion led to greater movement westward, international trade, and fostered immigration
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What is the railroad
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What was the first federal effort to regulate railroads, resulting in the increase of government regulation?
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What is the Interstate Commerce Act
Question: Strike-breakers hired by employers as replacement workers for when unions went on strike.
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SCABS
Question: Powerful banker and someone who played a major role by financing major industrial companies.
(Hint: Still A Name We Hear Today)
Answer:Who is J.P Morgan
Question: The production of this material started booming during the construction of railroads, bridges, etc. and was produced in the Bessemer Process.
Answer: What is steel
Question: This industry was created in order to help supply railroads with what they needed to function.
Answer: What is coal industry
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What sandal involved paying off congressmen and overcharging tax payers to build railroads.
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What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal
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First major labor organization that campaigned for higher wages, better working conditions, and lower working hours.
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Who are Knights of Labor.
Question: Standard Oil Company and became one of the wealthiest people in American History.
Answer: Who is John D. Rockefeller.
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What development made during this point in time helped the production of clothing more efficiently?
Answer: What is the sewing machine
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What is the process in which is responsible for purifying steel?
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What is the Beessemer process
Question: A term used in the 19th century in the U.S as a negative reference to businessmen like Rocketfelller, J.P Morgan, etc. They amassed large personal fortunes as a result of exploiting workers.
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What is robber barons
Question: What was the meat-packing capital?
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Chicago
Question: Who was the leading figure and or face of the steel industry?
Answer: Who is Andrew Carneige
Question: What was created by Thomas Edison was the first device capable of recording sound.
Answer: What is the phonograph
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An economic system where a government places very few restrictions on the types of business activities or ownership that citizens want to partake in.
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What is free enterprise
Question: Policy that the government should not interfere as in the nation's economy and production of goods.
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What is Laissez-Faire
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Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo. It suggested that workers needed minimum wage to sustain themselves.
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What is the Iron Law of Wages.
Question: Was a part of railroad and shopping industries and became wealthy off his investments in them.
(Hint: Has a college named after him.)
Answer: Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt