Inventions
Created a reliable source of light as well as the phonograph.
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition in an industry. This is called a________
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
An economy where businesses make the decisions about how much to produce and at what price
What is a capitalist economy?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This allowed for long distance communication to happen rapidly.
What is the telegraph?
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods (such as automobiles) cheaper and more widely available to Americans
What is the assembly line?
Organizations formed by workers to advocate/negotiate/fight for improved working conditions.
What are labor unions?
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the Telephone?
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Robber Barons
Early invention in the Industrial Revolution. It fueled the growth of slavery in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
Which invention changed transportation and life in America during the early 1900's?
What is the Automobile?
An economic doctrine that opposes government regulation of business, finance, and/or the conditions of people’s working lives.
Laissez-Faire
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is Urbanization?
This invention allowed for better transportation and storage of food.
What is the refrigerator?
This process allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
This was one of the most violent worker conflicts in United States history between Carnegie steel workers and Pinkertons (private military hired by Frick/Carnegie)
What is the Homestead Strike?
This Gilded Age law prevented the immigration of a group of people into the United States.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?