Industrialization People
This man drilled for "black gold" using a "steam engine", this lowered the price and made it more practical.
Edwin L. Drake
This town and state is where "Black Gold" was first drilled for using a "steam engine"?
Titusville, PA
This invention by Christopher Sholes, helped to introduce "women into the workplace", it allowed for the "mass-distribution of the written word", which helped "businesses communicate"?
The Typewriter
This means the Government will keep "Hands Off" and allow "Big Business" to grow without "regulation"?
Laissez Faire
"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." This concept convinced millionaire's of the "Gilded Age" to donate their money to help others.
Gospel of Wealth
This man is known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park", he held over 1,000 patents. His most famous include the "lightbulb, phonograph, and motion pictures (movies)"
Thomas Edison
This is another name for a "city", they grew tremendously during this time period, the largest were New York City and Philadelphia?
Urban Areas
This metal is "lighter, more flexible, and rust resistant", it becomes the building material of "buildings that exceed 10 stories"?
Steel
This term, means "making many goods, at once, using the machinery in a factory"?
Mass Production
This is a business that tries to "eliminate competition", there by, allowing, one company to "control the production, wages, and prices of an entire industry"?
A Monopoly
This city was home to the very first "steel framed building" to "exceed 10 stories tall"?
Chicago
This invention by Thomas Edison, allows "Americans to work at night", there by, increasing the productivity of the United States, making it the "richest country in the world"
The Lightbulb or (Electricity)
This "process" was introduced to turn "iron" into "steel", it made the production of "steel" cheaper and therefore, allowed more people to build with it, "creating a building boom in cities"
The Bessemer Process
This is the nickname of this time period, it comes from author Mark Twain. The term means that even though the age offered "tremendous wealth", many felt it was only "gold-plated, with a rotten core"?
The Gilded Age
This man invented the "telephone". This was a revolution in business communication. The "most valuable patent of the 20th Century"?
Alexander Graham Bell
This city in Western PA, was home to the "Steel Industry" due to it's abundance of "natural resources" such as "iron ore, coal, and petroleum"? It became known as "Steel Town, USA"?
Pittsburgh, PA
This invention by Elisha Otis, allowed for "buildings to exceed 10 stories", before this invention, there was a human limit to the "weight that could be lifted above 5 floors"?
The Elevator
This type of "business organization", becomes very popular at the time of Industrialization, due to the ability to raise large sums of "capital" by selling "shares of stock". One of the main advantages is you can "only lose what you invest, if it fails"?
The Corporation
This is the name of the first building to rise between 10 and 20 stories, these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s, it is located in the Midwest of the US?
"Home Insurance Building" in Chicago.
This man was a Scottish Immigrant. He massed produced "steel" with a new "process". He became the "richest man in the world" and gave his fortune away?
Andrew Carnegie
These "two cities", were connected by a famous bridge? Now residents could live in one city and work in the other. This led to tremendous growth.
Brooklyn and New York City (Manhattan)
This invention "connected" two of the largest cities in the country, it was made using a new "lighter, flexible, and rust resistant material", it had revolutionary "cables" that supported the weight. It was tested by sending "elephants from one side to the other"?
The Brooklyn Bridge
This is the concept that "you only lose what you invest in a business that fails", it is a main advantage for the most popular type of business organization during Industrialization?
Limited Liability
This time period inspired many foreigners, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe, to move to the US, seeking jobs. The movement of people into the US is called?
Immigration