Businessmen
After earning millions from investing in America's steel industry, he helped supply society with public libraries, education, etc.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
this invention helped people to communicate over a long distance forever.
What is the telephone?
The belief in social, economic, and political equality between the sexes by the practice of movements in hopes to change their role in society. They actually started to during the Industrial Revolution by having women enter the workforce to support their families.
What is feminism?
He was scientist and an engineer who signed the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War. He invented many things and had many theories and discoveries, like electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
an organization of English textile workers who protested by destroying machinery in factories all over the country because they felt that their jobs were being taken away
He was at one time the richest man in the world as well as the founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This invention helped to extend the workday into the night time as well as travel at night.
What is the lightbulb?
This invention provided us with a faster and more efficient way of producing cotton, which in return increased cotton production in the United States.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The second president as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He was a leading advocate of American Independence from Britain.
Who is John Adams?
An Act that limited women's as well as young people's work hours from working in textile mills to 10 hours a day. Also limited the age of workers to 9.
What is the Ten Hours Act of 1847?
A businessman who made steel, electric, and railroad companies more stable and profitable.
Who is J.P Morgan?
This invention helped employers write manuals for the workers easier, faster, and made them easier to read. It was the first step to the new technology of writing.
What is the typewriter?
This invention helped us be able to build and power factories anywhere as well as power transportation such as trains and steamboats.
What is the steamboat?
English-American writer and political activist who wrote "Common Sense" which was a passage persuading Americans to gain independance from Great Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
a Bureau in order to monitor and maintain the well-being of children among every social class.
What is The Children's Bureau?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This explosive tool was used to dig mines deeper as well as faster.
What is dynamite?
This process allowed for steel to be mass-produced at a cheap cost.
What is the Bessemer process?
An author who was famous for writing about the difficult times endured in the Industrial Revolution in order to bring attention to social reformation.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This act prevented all women and girls as well as all boys under the age of 10 from working in the mines which led to different wages between genders.
What is The Mines Act?
A textile manufacturer who worked to improve factory working conditions for workers and had a socialist mindset.
Who is Robert Owen?
An invention that helped to make weaving cloth and spinning yarn and thread much easier.
What is the power loom?
This happened because more factories were built, meaning more jobs were needed. So, people moved from small communities to big cities for jobs and this distributed the population nicely.
What is urbanization?
This philosopher was famous for his theories about capitalism and communism. He is also known as the father of communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This act gives the right to a minimum wage and overtime pay for when people worked more than 40 hours a week. It also bans child labor and limits the children under 16's work hours.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?