Industrial Boom
Invented the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion camera, and hundreds of other useful devices.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A company that controls most of or all business in a particular industry.
What is a monopoly?
The rapid growth of city populations.
What is urbanization?
The process of being part of a different culture.
What is assimilation?
Used to describe the sensational reporting style of newspapers that used comic strips.
What is yellow journalism?
Made shipping goods and materials cross-country easier and faster.
What are railroads?
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
Building divided into many tiny apartments.
What are tenements?
A person who opposes all forms of government.
The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?
A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt.
What is the assembly line?
Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
A 10-story building that seemed to touch the sky.
What is a skyscraper?
A large compartment that usually held cattle.
What is steerage?
Writers who try to show life as it really is.
What is a realist?
Flew the first flight that lasted 12 seconds and flew 120 feet.
Who is Orville Wright?
The man who dominated the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What is a department store?
A popular Polish sausage that immigrants brought to the country.
What is kielbasa?
A realist who wrote the famous book Huckleberry Finn; The pen name of Samuel Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
Invented the shoe-making machine in 1883.
Who is Jan Matzeliger?
Founded a workers union in Ohio called the AFL (American Federation of Labor).
Who is Samuel Gompers?
A reformer who opened the Hull House, a settlement house in the slums of Chicago.
Who was Jane Addams?
A law to exclude the Chinese laborers from the U.S. in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A Hungarian immigrant who created the first modern, mass-circulation newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?