Inventors/Inventions
What was Edison's most important and practical invention?
Lightbulb
What where Railroads used for?
Transport goods and people
What kind of new music did African Americans make?
Jazz
What is the definition of Discount
Rebate
What did suffragist support?
Women rights
What time period did the telegraph develop?
1830s
What was an entrepreneur?
A person who starts a business
What language did immigrants have to learn?
English
The separation of groups
Segregation
What president made the first conservation?
Roosevelt
What did electricity power throughout the U.S?
Factories, Trollies, Streetlights, and Lamps
What did John D Rockefeller own?
Standard Oil Company
What was a major problem in cities?
Disease
A group of business that agree to limit competition, raise prices, and increase profit
Oligopoly
An investigative reporter who exposed corruption in business
Muckraker
Who created the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Who where the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad?
Collis D Huntington and Leland Stanford
What gender had more freedom in the U.S than people from European and Asian country?
Females
A system in which opposing sides in negotiation agree to accept to agree to a settlement offered by a neutral party
Arbitration
A term referred to an educated, modern women who persuaded interest outside of home
New Woman
How was the first airplane powered?
Steam Engine
What is collective Barging?
The talk between a Labor Union and management over wages and other matters.
What two religions were most common among immigrants
Catholic and Judaism
The agreed upon distance between the two metals rails of railroad track
4 feet 8.5 inches
Standard gauge
Who was the president that got assassinated less than a year after winning Re-election?