The World Before
In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
England
The primary gateway for immigrants entering the United States during the Industrial Revolution.
Ellis Island
This man revolutionized the moving assembly line to drastically cut the time it took to build a car.
Henry Ford
This man patented the telephone in 1876, revolutionizing communication.
Alexander Graham Bell
A primary source
What was the first major industry during the Industrial Revolution?
textile industry
True or False: Some PUSH factors for immigration were religious persecution, famine, and war.
true
This man made his fortune in the OIL industry.
John D Rockefeller
How did the assembly line change the nature of work for people working in factories?
Increased emphasis on speed, efficiency, and standardization of tasks.
A textbook, a biography, or a documentary are all examples of this type of source.
A secondary source
What two inventions were vital in the expansion of the textile industry?
power loom and spinning jenny
List some pull factors for immigration into the United States.
abundant job opportunity, affordable land, political and religious freedom
This term was used to criticize powerful industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller for using ruthless business tactics to gain their wealth.
Robber baron
Two reasons railroads were important
moved people faster, moved goods faster
The three marks you should be making on your paper as you annotate.
circle, underline, arrows
This invention freed factories from water resources.
Steam engines
The primary workplace setting for immigrants during the Industrial Revolution.
Factories
This company was eventually broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911 for violating antitrust laws.
Standard Oil Company
Before this invention, a letter from Missouri to California could take 10 days by Pony Express. It revolutionized long-distance communication.
The telegraph
The term for a historian's process of comparing multiple documents to check for accuracy and different perspectives.
Corroboration
This Asian country was heavily influenced by the Industrial Revolution.
Japan
Which two countries had the highest number of individuals emigrate to the United States during the years 1840-1890
Germany and Ireland
The major difference in philanthropic philosophy that separated Carnegie from Vanderbilt.
Carnegie gave away all of his fortune to libraries and universities while Vanderbilt left most of his wealth to his family.
These new problems for the lower classes were created with the formation of a new class of super-rich industrialists. They led to the formation of labor unions and new government regulations.
Poor working conditions, bigger wage gap.
You have a newspaper article, a diary entry, and a political cartoon, all about the same event. Explain how using all three can create a more complete picture of the event than using just one.
Each source offers a different perspective that can fill in gaps, confirm facts, and reveal deeper understanding of the event.