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Jim Craw laws required African American & Whites to be _____________ in public
Separated
The practice of separate companies combining together
Consolidation
What did Alaxander Grahm Bell invent?
The telephone
What was the book "The Jungle" about?
Unsanitary Meatpacking Plants
This inventor revolutionized manufacturing with the idea of interchangeable parts for muskets, leading to mass production.
Eli Whitney
In Factories workers were often _____________ & _________
Overworked & Underpaid
What individual owned railroads and could control rail traffic
Railroad Barons
What were the Wright brother's names who invented the first airplane?
Wilbur & Orville Wright
What party did Theodore Roosevelt create?
The Progressive Party of "The bull moose party"
This 19th-century power source replaced water wheels, allowing factories to be built away from rivers and closer to railroads.
Steam Engine
Many White Southerners resented the consequences of losing the ________ ______.
Civil War
A journalistic writing style exaggerating the dramatic aspects.
Yellow Journalism
Between 1860 & 1890, roughly how many patents did the government grant?
Over 400,000
In the late 1800s what were 2 factors of better production?
New technology, transportation, business methods
Often called "robber barons" or "captains of industry," these businessmen created monopolies to dominate industries like steel and oil.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
What happened to the industry in late 1800s?
American industry increased
A group of businesses that agree to limit competition and labor prices.
Oligopoly
What year was Ford's Model T car released?
1908
What industry was Andrew Carnegie involved in?
He dominated the STEEL industry
This term describes the shift from hand-made goods in small workshops to machine-made goods in large factories, beginning around the 1800s.
The Industrial Revolution
What were the new demands put on cities & their residents in late 1800s and early 1900s?
Economic Growth, Population Growth, Immigration, & Changing Technology
An active supporter of women's right to vote.
Suffragist
What did George Westinghouse mostly invent?
Safety Devices
What group opposed immigration since the 1830s to the late 1800s?
The nativist movement
This 1890 act was the first federal law designed to break up monopolies and trusts that restrained trade and competition.
The Sherman Antitrust Act