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This material is know for replacing iron.
What is steel?
The two areas of the country where most immigrants settled during the Industrial Revolution
What is the Northeast and Midwest?
The number of yearly injuries reported by factory workers in the 1880s & 1890s
What is 500,000?
Some of the innovations or implementations that improved farming in the 1800s
What are the steel plow, tractors, fertilizers, pesticides, railway?
"Lady druggist" that was Andy's girlfriend in season 1?
Who is Ellie Walker?
Company owned by John Rockefeller which monopolized the oil industry
What is the Standard Oil Company?
Inventor of the light bulb and motion picture camera
Who is Thomas Edison?
Tycoon who led the growth of the US steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
In response to poor work conditions, many workers joined together to form these to demand reform.
What are labor unions?
Local mechanic that left Mayberry to join the Army
Who is Gomer Pile?
A reform movement that wanted to solve political, economic, and social problems in the US
What is Progressivism?
Place in America where the “Golden Spike” was set
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
When a group of employees stop working in order to demand reform from their employer
What is a strike?
This Congressional measure gave free land in the West
What is the Homestead Act?
Town near Mayberry where Otis decided to go to jail
What is Mount Pilot?
Groups formed by farmers wanting reform
What is Grange, Farmer’s Alliance, National Farmers’ Alliance?
This law made it illegal for a company, or companies working together, to control an entire industry
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities
What is urbanization?
The Interstate Commerce Act was passed in 1887 to regulate this industry
What is the railroad industry?
This man hired a helper in his business that ended up being a criminal
Who is Floyd the barber?
This connected the Atlantic to the Pacific by rail
What is the Transcontinental Railroiad?
A political philosophy that focuses on meeting the needs of common people
What is populism?
This brought many Chinese immigrants to the US
What is Building the railroad?
The complete control of an industry by one person or company
What is a monopoly?
Secret name of Aunt Bea's famous pickles?
What is Kerosene Cucumbers?