Inventions
This guy was known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
Who is Thomas Edison?
What was the French Word called that said the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.
Robber Barrons
What are two natural disasters homesteaders faced?
Tornados, droughts, floods
This allowed for long-distance communication to happen rapidly (used morse code).
What is the telegraph?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
This person controlled the Railroad Industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.
What are Captains of Industry?
what were homesteaders houses made of?
SOD
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the telephone
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
What is the Gilded Age?
This person controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the term used for african americans that fled the south to become homesteaders?
Exodusters
Who are the Irish or the Chinese?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery/industry
What is industrialization?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
how many years did homesteaders have to farm the land before it was thers?
5 years
This process created steel cheaper and quicker (brought over from England).
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans (______ line)
What is the assembly line?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Book written by Andrew Carnegie arguing that it is God's will for some to be rich so they can serve the public.
What is the "Gospel of Wealth"?
how many acres was given to people during the homestead act?
160
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
The workforce of the Industrial Revolution was largely made up of this group of people.
What are immigrants?
This Gilded Age industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
________ was America's first big business aiding in transportation.
What are railroads?
what percent of homesteaders did NOT make the commitment and went home?
60 percent