Industrial Revolution
This man held over 1000 patents before finally inventing the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This determined the price of goods and the amount of money workers would get paid.
What is capitalism?
The number of young women that died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
What is 146?
Reasons why employers wanted to hire children.
What is they wouldn’t strike, they could pay them less, and they could control them?
When managers brought in machines that caused them to treat workers unfairly.
What is scientific management?
This invention decreased the time it took to make steel which made it cheaper and more common.
What is the Bessemer Process?
When businesses operate without the control of the government.
What is free enterprise?
How the fire began.
What is someone threw a cigarette in a pile of cotton scraps?
The most common effects of children working in factories.
What are loss of limbs/body parts and death?
This union of skilled and unskilled workers collectively bargained for the 8 hour work day, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
The two inventions that resulted from Nikolas Otto’s gasoline engine.
What are the automobile and airplane?
Owning all of the parts of the production process which lowered the price of production and goods (Andrew Carnegie).
What is vertical integration?
Reason why the fire spread.
What is a broken hose and no sprinklers?
After several injuries of children in factories this was the result.
What is a law requiring children to be in schools and not working?
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is an anarchist?
George Westinghouse is responsible for two inventions:
What are air brakes and long distance electricity?
Reasons why people were against trusts and monopolies.
What are they reduced competition, kept prices high, and reduced the quality of goods?
Reasons why the women could not escape the fire.
What is managers locked the door from the outside, elevators were broken, and the fire escape was too small?
When listening to the audio clip “I Was Busy All My Life” the speaker had these jobs.
What is shoeshining, shopping, car washing, and newspaper delivering?
A Chicago Riot when two strikers were killed while striking for an 8 hour workday and the next day in protest someone threw dynamite that killed officers and shooting began.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This invention allowed automobiles to be produced faster by using an assembly line.
What is the model T?
When business did whatever (child labor, low wages, unsafe conditions) to make sure their businesses were successful. This is also the opposite of philanthropy.
What is social Darwinism?
The effects of the fire.
What is several women died, the managers were arrested but not charged with manslaughter, their union grew, and a law was passed to require sprinklers in factories?
When viewing the photos children held these jobs.
What are kitchen workers, miners, canery workers, and newspaper delivery boys?
When people refused to use certain trains to transport goods as a form of protest for the lay-off of workers, reduced wages, and high rent and utilities.
What is the Pullman Strike?