People and Places
Vocabulary
Type of Community
Oil
Say What?
100
Who was the most important man in the oil business?
John D. Rockefeller
100
A group of workers that unite to go on strike is called a ...?
Labor Union
100
Urban, Suburban, or Rural?
Urban
100
What is the term for when oil is applied to machinery parts to help them move?
Lubricate
100
Treating people unjustly because of the color of their skin is called ...
Racial Discrimination
200
Who was the most important steel manufacturer in the nation?
Andrew Carnegie
200
What is the term for a resource that is used to make a product?
Raw Material
200
Urban, Suburban, or Rural?
Rural
200
What oil drilled from the ground took the place of whale oil?
Petroleum
200
What was the view called that was based on Darwin's ideas of survival of the fittest ... ?
Social Darwinism
300
What is the term for housing where the poorest people live?
Tenements
300
When workers stop work in order to get something, such as money or better benefits, it is called a .....
Strike
300
Urban, Suburban, or Rural?
Suburban
300
Why did whale oil need to be replaced?
Whalers had to sail farther from home to hunt for whales and it took longer to get the oil
300
What was the most important industry after the Civil War?
Railroad
400
A house in a row of houses built without any space in between them is called a ...
Row House
400
The name given to a group of people who controlled the way the city ran was the ...
Machine
400
What is the term for a type of community that is outside of the city, often has fewer people but has more farms and land, and is characteristic of the countryside?
Rural
400
What is the process to purify oil called?
Refine
400
A book of questions and answers that teaches about God and the Bible was called?
Catechism
500
A set of rooms within a building that a person or family can rent to live in is called an ...
Apartment
500
An underground railroad is called a ...
Subway
500
What are these?
Telegraph Lines
500
What thin, light colored oil is used to light lamps and lubricate machines?
Kerosene
500
Explain how the Civil War improved the way businesses worked.
Answer should include that during the Civil War, Americans learned how to think big. Business improved in the management of time, supplies, and people.