Inventions & Inventors
The use of water in gaseous form to power mechanical devices.
What is Steam Power?
The complete control of a product or service.
What is a Monopoly?
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Negotiating as a group for better pay or conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
Programs aimed at immigrants to teach English, American culture, dress, diet, and helped contribute to the idea of a “melting pot.”
What is Americanization?
Inventor of the lightbulb and credited with many patents in electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison?
An economic and political system → a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is Capitalism?
One room multi-family housing in crowded apartment buildings. Usually lived in by European immigrants.
What are Tenements?
A secretive organization open to all workers, skilled or unskilled. Women, African Americans, and any worker could join.
What is the Knights of Labor?
A common term often used to describe the cultural integration and even assimilation of immigrants into the US. Cultures are mixed together to be American.
What is a "Melting Pot"?
The first type was completed in Chicago in 1885.
What is a skyscraper?
American Steel Tycoon, he owned all aspects of his steel business and wrote The Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Middle and upper class neighborhoods that formed as a response to the growing industrial cities and diversification of urban centers.
What are Suburbs?
An economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income.
What is Socialism?
Island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
Process to purify iron to make strong, lightweight steel.
Group of businesses that agree to make the same product at a limited scale to keep the cost high.
What is a Cartel?
An event that saw 6 million African Americans leave the South and move to cities in the North from 1910-1970.
What is the Great Migration?
What is the Homestead Strike?
Southern and Eastern Europeans, Jewish and Catholics, Chinese, Japanese.
What are "New Immigrants"?
The "Father of the American Railroad."
Who is John Stevens?
The idea, inspired by a novel, that one could start from nothing and end up with wealth.
What is "rags to riches?"
A disease that saw multiple outbreaks during urbanization due to poor sanitation and living conditions.
What is Cholera?
Leader of the unions in the Pullman Strike and was involved in Supreme Court Cases.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
A preference to accept native-born white Americans over white europeans.
What is Nativism?