Inventions
This invention allowed train cars to connect to each other much easier and safer.
What is the Janney Car Coupler?
This industry was extremely competitive, was the first corporation, and had many trusts.
This architectural style promoted Greco-Roman Classical architecture with columns, gray stone, and elevated first levels.
This Constitutional Amendment gave citizenship to former slaves and gave due process of law to everyone in court.
This was the last armed conflict between the United States and Native Americans that resulted in the death of 200 Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This invention allowed for communications that did not require using Morse Code.
What is the telephone?
John Rockefeller started a trust that was a monopoly of this industry?
What is the Oil Industry?
This style of architecture included a heavy look with arches, large red or brown stones, and green cone-shaped or pyramid-shaped roofs.
What is Richardsonian Romanesque?
This Constitutional Amendment gave all men, including African Americans, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These towns included saloons and hotels, and would pop up if gold or silver was discovered somewhere in the desert.
What is a Boomtown?
This invention by Thomas Edison allowed for the use of electricity to see instead of using fire.
What is the Lightbulb?
What is the Steel Industry?
This was a reform movement that included new architectural styles, parks, and public spaces to make cities look attractive.
What is the City Beautiful Movement?
During Reconstruction, this government program helped former slaves integrate into society with schools, medical care, clothing, and food.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These were a major result of the Transcontinental Railroad with regard to measuring when trains would arrive and leave the stations.
What are Time Zones?
This invention by the Wright Brothers allowed for people to travel in the sky rather than on the ground.
What is the plane?
A portion of a company that is sold to a private citizen who then owns that part of the company.
What is a stock?
These foreign people were banned from immigrating to the United States for 10 years in 1892.
Who are the Chinese?
This terrorist organization founded in the South was focused on intimidated and murdering former slaves during Reconstruction.
This invention allowed for a new form of playing music.
What is the Phonograph?
When two or more corporations consolidate into one large corporation to reduce competition and increase profits.
What is a Trust?
This is the process of immigrants integrating into the dominant culture of a country.
What is Assimilation?
This form of labor that former slaves used to make money ended up becoming a cycle of debt and little better than slavery.
What is Sharecropping?
What is the Gilded Age?