Inventions
This invention allowed better and faster communication.
What is the telephone
What type of boat travels through canals?
What is the steam boat.
Those who manage and assume the financial risk of new businesses.
What is "entrepreneurs".
The process of expanding industry in a country or city.
What is "industrialization"
What are the three factors of production?
Human Capital and National Reaources.
This invention allowed easy food preservation and an easy way to transport food over long distances.
What is the Tin Can
What was the newest way to travel on land in the mid 1800's?
What is railroads.
Another name for a steam engine that rides on rails
What is locomotive.
Poor run-down, urban neighborhoods.
What are "slums"
What are the crowded/rundown apartment buildings found in the slums of cities called?
What are tenements.
The purpose of the "Cotton Gin"
What is to separate the cotton from the seed faster.
What often happened to railroads due to being poorly constructed?
What is they would set fire.
Divided the U.S. into four time zones.
What is standard time.
T/F People couldn't go to amusement parks because they weren't invented
What is False
What is an economic system that allows competition among businesses operated by private individuals.
What is the Free Enterprise System.
The invention of the machine that performed mechanical work using steam as its working fluid was the steam _______.
What is the steam engine
When was the first railroad created?
What is 1828
A drug that prevents pain during surgery
What is anesthetic.
What sport did America recognize as their "pastime"
What is baseball
The first lightweight airplane was powered by a _______-powered engine.
What is gas or gasoline.
What did the spinning jenny revolutionize?
What is the process of cotton spinning.
What time era did transportation hit high?
What is the Industrial Revolution.
What is a monopoly?
What is a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.
The nickname given to the late 1800s known for extravagant wealth on top of extreme poverty
What is the Gilded Age.
This is a technique that was used to expand workers rights.
What is collective bargaining.