Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
People
Places
Miscellaneous
100
A fee paid for borrowing money.
What is interest?
100
A woven or knit cloth.
What is a textile?
100
The famous muckraker who wrote a book called The Jungle that described the filthy and unsafe conditions of the meat packing plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
The Industrial Revolution began in this country.
What is Great Britain?
100
This a group of workers who agree to work together to defend their rights at work.
What is a union?
200
Share in a company that show ownership and a right to receive part of the profits.
What is stock?
200
People who own or control manufacturing businesses.
Who are industrialists?
200
The inventor of the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
The name of the railroad that connected the East coast to the West coast in the United States.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
200
In the early 1900's most children did this.
What is work in factories.
300
An arrangement of workers where an item moves along a conveyer belt and workers add to the item as it moves along until the whole piece is assembled.
What is an assembly line?
300
To bring under control of the law.
What is regulate?
300
The Scottish immigrant who built a steel mill into the largest and most profitable in the United States.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
America's industry grew fastest in this state because it had a supply of coal for blast furnaces.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
The need for cotton cloth caused this to happen
What is the increase of slavery?
400
The way a nation runs its industry, trade, and finance.
What is economy?
400
Money; often used to start a business.
What is capital?
400
The inventor of the phonograph, the light bulb, the power generating plant.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
The location of the big fire in 1911 that caused the government to set up new laws about working conditions.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City?
400
This group of people were willing to work in any condition for long hours and low pay and became victims for factory owners.
Who are the immigrants?
500
Total control of markets or industries.
What is a monopoly?
500
Businesses with poor working conditions; workers were often children and women.
What are sweatshops?
500
The industrialist who owned 90 percent of the U.S. oil industry by 1879 and was the first American billionaire.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
The city that was the location of the Haymarket Riot in 1886.
What is Chicago?
500
This law that was passed in 1890 banned monopolies and did not allow companies to form trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
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