A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention...
What is a patent?
100
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors...
What is a trust?
100
Three resources discovered in westward expansion that helped fuel the industrial revolution...
What is iron, coal, lead, copper, oil, and lumber?
100
He wanted to build a device to carry the human voice...
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
Immigrants looked to the United States as a " ", where they could build a better life...
What is "land of opportunity" or "land of wealth"?
200
A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt...
What is an assembly line?
200
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely...
What is free enterprise?
200
Three inventions by Thomas Edison...
What is the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and electrical power plant.
200
He was a poor Scottish immigrant who worked his way up in the railroad business. He eventually entered the steel industry and took over. His philosophy that the rich had a duty to improve society was called the "Gospel of Wealth"...
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
In 1852, Massachusetts passed the first compulsory education law that said...
What is all children must attend school up to a certain age?
300
Someone who sets up a new business to make a profit...
What is an entrepreneur?
300
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group...
What is collective bargaining?
300
Three ways transportation improved during the Industrial Revolution...
What is railroads, gas-powered airplane, automobile, electric subway, elevated train cars.
300
He was the son of a peddler in New York. He invested in an oil refinery, that eventually led to the formation of Standard Oil Trust...
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
A famous author of the time was Mark Twain. He made his stories realistic by...example "Huckleberry Finn"
What is capturing the speech patterns of southerners who lived and worked along the Mississippi River.
400
Businesses owned by many investors...
What is a corporation?
400
The rapid growth of city populations...
What is urbanization?
400
Three reasons why unions were formed...
What is harsh working conditions, low pay, and long working hours?
400
She played a key role in building unions. She pushed to end child labor...
Who is "Mother Jones"?
400
One cause of the "Newspaper Boom"...
What is the spread of education and urbanization?
500
A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry...
What is a monopoly?
500
The process of becoming part of another culture...
What is assimilation?
500
Three new ways of doing business during the Industrial Revolution...
What are entrepreneurs, corporations, monopolies, and trusts.
500
In 1891, he invented the game of basketball by nailing two peach baskets to the wall and having people throw a soccer ball into them...
Who is James Naismith?
500
On an average school day children learned the "three R's" which were...