Transcontinental Railroad
2 groups of immigrants that played an important part in building the Transcontinental Railroad
Who were the Chinese and the Irish?
Made oil refining an important industry in the United States
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Inventions made electricity available to the nation's homes and factories
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
Most immigrants settled here when they came to the United States
What are cities?
2 ways growth of the steel industry changed cities and railroads
What are
steel frames enabled cities to have taller buildings?
steel frames enabled the building of suspended bridges?
steel rails were stronger and longer lasting than iron rails?
2 ways the government sped up work on the Transcontinental Railroad
What are giving the railroad companies land and money?
Helped form a company to build the Transcontinental Railroad
Who is Theodore Judah?
Founded the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
Advertisements increased immigration to the United States by promising this
What are jobs?
Define the Great Migration
What was the movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to northern cities between 1910 and 1930?
Location where the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met to finish the Transcontinental Railroad
What is Promontory, Utah?
started a settlement house in New York City
Who is Lillian Wald?
Example of an entrepreneur: Irving Berlin, Samuel Gompers, John D Rockefeller, John Philip Sousa
Who is John D Rockefeller?
Most immigrants lived in these in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What are tenements?
The Great Migration was caused by this
What was it was hard to make a living on the farms, and jobs were available in factories in the North?
The mountain range that the Central Pacific had to blast through
What is the Sierra Nevada?
Caused the steel industry to grow in the United States
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Started the first telephone company in the United States
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Number of immigrants from Eastern Europe that came to the United States between 1891 and 1900
(see graph)
What is 500,000?
2 reasons why labor unions were formed in the late 1800s
What are
to demand higher wages?
to demand shorter workdays?
to demand better working conditions?
2 ways that the Transcontinental Railroad benefited the nation
What are:
uniting the country by connecting the East Coast and the West Coast?
making travel easier for people between the East Coast and the West Coast?
making it easier to move raw materials to factories and finished products to market, which reduced the cost of many products?
Organized the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
His air brakes made trains safer by stopping not only the locomotive but also each car
Who is George Westinghouse?
Percentage of the population of the United States that was native-born in 1890
What is 85%?
Settlement houses were started for this reason AND provided these services
What is a response to the poor living conditions in cities?
What are childcare, teaching people new skills, offering food and medical care?