Gilded Age
What is characteristic of the industrial era?
When people begin to make items with machines instead of by hand.
What is Thomas Edison famous for doing during this period?
Thomas Edison extends the life of the electric light bulb and runs electricity inside buildings.
What is a union?
When a group of people come together for a common cause.
What president personifies the Progressive Era?
Teddy Roosevelt.
What is Imperialism?
Spreading of power through colonies and territories around the world.
What is a monopoly?
When one person or one company has complete control of a good a service.
Who was George Washington Carver
He is the plant doctor who discovered 300 uses for the peanut and helped with crop rotation for more effectively agriculture.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The man who started the Labor movement and the AFL (American Federation of Labor).
What is the Progressive Era?
A time of greater government control over business.
What is the major event that leads to the start of the Spanish American War.
The mysterious explosion of the USS Maine, a battleship docked in Cuba.
What is the main way that the industrial revolution impacted Tennessee?
Tennessee had a lot of mines throughout the Cumberland plateau.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
He is the inventor of the telephone.
What is collective bargaining?
When both the ownership and workers come together to agree to working conditions. They sign a contract to how the work will be done.
What was the law that broke up monopolies during this time?
The Sherman anti-trust act.
Newspapers ran articles about how Spain was responsible for sinking the MAINE. The articles were titled "Remember the MAINE." What is this type of journalism called.
Yellow Journalism
Carnegie made his money through working with Steel. He owned US Steel and was one of the wealthiest men in the country.
What are the two things that Henry Ford adds during this period?
He invents the car. He also makes the assembly line more efficient.
What were the goals of the AFL?
An 8 hour work day, end child labor, and a fair wage for workers.
What was a political machine?
What were the Rough riders and who was their leader?
The Rough riders were a group of volunteers who fought in the Spanish American War. They were led by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is a Robber Baron? Also give an example of a Robber Baron.
A person who comes in a takes over an industry to create a monopoly.
Vanderbilt- railroad
John D. Rockefeller- Oil
J P Morgan- Banking or electricity
What is the Bessemer process?
Henry Bessemer invented the process. It was a way to put more air into the making of steel to make it cheaper and quicker.
What were the working conditions like for children during the industrial revolution?
What were the Constitutional Amendments passed during the Progressive Era?
16th- allows a federal income tax.
17th- elects Senators by voting.
18th- makes sale of alcohol illegal.
19th- grants women the right to vote
What does the US get win they win the war?