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Invented by Samuel Morse in 1844, this used a coded system to send messages; similar to text messaging.
What is the telegraph?
Immigration processing center that opened in 1892, located on the East Coast; the busiest of the immigration processing centers.
What is Ellis Island?
Multi-story buildings designed using steal beams to make sturdy frames; the safety elevator made this live-able.
What are skyscrapers?
Shortages in these forced families to squeeze into tiny tenement apartments.
Alexander Graham Bell
Places where many immigrants moved with others from the same country; here they could hear their own language, eat familiar foods, and keep their customs.
What are neighborhoods?
What is the suburbs?
Set up in poor areas, these places offered education, recreation, and social activities.
What are settlement houses?
This inventor allowed for homes and businesses to be able to see better because of the incandescent light bulb; clean a house quicker and use many other forms of technology, such as the washing machine, electric streetcar and the vacuum cleaner.
Thomas Edison
Immigration processing center that opened in 1910, located on the West Coast near San Francisco.
What is Angel Island?
Public transportation, designed to move lots of people; included elevated trains, subways, and electric trolleys.
What is mass transit?
Wrote the book, How the Other Half Lives, which exposed the horrible conditions in New York tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Without this invention or process created by Andrew Carnegie, many buildings, bridges and skyscrapers would not be possible, because there would not be any steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
Law passed in 1882, that said only Chinese whose fathers were U.S. citizens were allowed to enter the country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Publishers that made popular innovations in their newspapers, like color comics.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer & William Rudolph Hearst?
The most famous settlement house; founded in Chicago in 1889 by reformers Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
What is Hull House?
This invention by the Wright Brothers, changed the world of international transportation.
What is the airplane?
Poorly built, overcrowded apartments that many immigrants lived in.
What are tennaments?
These giant retail shops appeared in city centers.
What are department stores?
This lady convinced lawmakers to take action against sweatshops in 1893, limiting the hours for women and preventing child-labor; became Illinois's chief factory inspector and helped to enforce the law.
Who is Florence Kelley?