Inventor of the telephone, which changed the way people communicated.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell.
100
"Black Gold"
What is oil?
100
Three reasons why a large number of immigrants came to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are to escape poverty, hunger, lack of jobs, violence, war, & injustice.
100
Hardships workers faced in the early 1900s.
What are dangerous working conditions, low wages, and long hours.
100
Conditions that led to the rise of labor unions.
What are tough working conditions, low wages, long hours, and child labor.
200
___________ created this so that musicians could record music and sell records.
Who is Thomas Edison and the phonograph.
200
A business owned by investors.
What is a corporation?
200
The first two things immigrants had to do when they came to America.
What are find a job and a place to live.
200
The reason many children had to work.
Because their parents didn't make enough money, they had to work to help support the family.
200
Samuel Gompers helped organize this group made up of many unions because he felt they were stronger together.
What is the American Federation Labor.
300
Lewis Latimer helped make electric light more practical for everyday use by creating this.
What is a method for making carbon filaments?
300
He controlled each step in the production of steel, so that he could keep costs lower.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
Ways that Ellis Island and Angel Island were the same.
What is they were both immigration stations, gave medical exams, and questioned immigrants.
300
Three jobs children had.
What are newsies, coal miners, chimney cleaner, and factory worker.
300
Ways that work conditions began to improve in the early 1900s.
What were laws passed leading to shorter workdays, safer workdays, and an end to child labor.
400
Inventor of the electric streetcar.
Who is Frank Sprague?
400
Railroads helped the economy grow by ______________.
What is transporting goods across the country.
400
Describe Ellis Island.
Mostly European immigrants, New York Harbor, check-in lasted about a day,
400
The length of a workday for an adult.
12-14 hours.
400
Describe the Homestead strike in 1892.
What is steel workers strike, armed guards were sent in, riot broke out= unsuccessful.
500
_______ and _________ Wright changed the way people traveled by creating this.
Who are Orville and Wilbur.
500
Freedoms that business owners and consumers have in a free enterprise.
Business owners are free to produce what they want, to charge what they want, and to profit from their effort.
Consumers are free to choose products that they like the best and for the lowest cost.
500
Describe Angel Island.
Mostly Asian immigrants, San Francisco Bay, endured harsher conditions, more detailed questioning and medical exams, carved poems on walls, and more likely to be deported.
500
This factory disaster helped lead to change in the workforce.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
500
Describe the newsies strike.
Peaceful, were upset because price of papers rose, appealed to the public, were successful.