Industrialization & Technology
This invention allowed voices to be transmitted over long distances.
What is the telephone?
This economic system emphasizes private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This movement sought to fix political, social, and economic problems.
What is Progressivism?
This political alignment dominated Southern politics after Reconstruction.
What is the Solid South?
This inventor is credited with creating the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
This process allowed steel to be produced faster and more cheaply.
What is the Bessemer Process?
These overcrowded apartment buildings housed many urban immigrants.
What are tenements?
This reform gave voters the power to remove elected officials from office.
What is recall?
This act established a merit-based system for federal jobs.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This inventor worked at Menlo Park and developed the light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This business strategy involves controlling all stages of production.
What is vertical integration?
This violent labor conflict occurred at a Carnegie steel plant.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This law required truthful labeling of food and medicines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This constitutional amendment created the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This innovation greatly increased the speed and efficiency of manufacturing.
What is the assembly line?
This oil company was built into a monopoly by John D. Rockefeller.
What was Standard Oil?
This labor leader headed the American Federation of Labor.
What was Standard Oil?
This labor leader headed the American Federation of Labor.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
This president promoted consumer protection and trust regulation.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This railroad linked the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This federal law was designed to limit monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This law severely limited immigration from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This amendment established nationwide Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?