New Inventions
What did Thomas Edison invent?
The light bulb
Name one of the important industries
Oil, Railroad, Steel, or Banking
Strikes
Temperance is what
Drinking in moderation
What is segregation
the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
The light bulb helped american people do what?
See in the dark
What business was Vanderbilt in charge of?
The Railroads
Who sold the newspapers in the late 1800s?
The Newsies
Gave women the right to vote
Where are the Jim Crow Laws taking place
He owned 90% of the Oil industry at one point
Rockefeller
Why were children working in the 1900s?
To help earn money for their family
What is Prohibition
The law that stopped the making, selling, and transporting of alcoholic beverages
Who are the two people campaigning to end Jim Crow Laws
WEB Dubois and Booker T Washington
He invented the first telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
When you own all of one industry that means you have a what?
a monopoly
Why did people die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
the poor building conditions and doors being locked
A person who argued for the right of women to vote is called
Suffragist
What does separate but equal mean?
racially segregated but still equal opportunities to all races.
This invention helped produce cars faster
the assembly line
What are the owners of the Big Business called
Captains of Industry
This book exposed the issues with the meat packing industry
The Jungle
Name 2 of the leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Lucy Burns
Plessy vs. Ferguson