Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses. Inventor of the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
What does it mean to say that the government had a Laissez-Faire approach to the economy during the time of the Industrial Revolution?
They had their hands-off the economy. Big business was dominating markets.
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Bonus: What are two positive things they arguably did?
Robber barrons
This Gilded Age captain of industry/robber baron is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Andrew Carnegie
Children, immigrants, blacks.
This allowed for long distance communication to happen rapidly thanks to Samuel Morse.
What is the telegraph?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
This Gilded Age law prevented the immigration of a group of people into the United States.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?
People start moving into cities in a process called___________.
What is Urbanization?
What were two geographical features that allowed the U.S. that helped the U.S. industrialize?
Coal, oil, gas, waterways, etc.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
Telephone
Mark Twain coined this term as a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
What is Vertical Integration
The founder of the Standard Oil Company,
Who is John D Rockefeller
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is urbanization?
This Gilded Age invention created the suburbs and the ability to commute.
What is the Automobile
The growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery
What is industrialization?
When you try to JOIN competing industries together so you can control the industry is called____.
Horizontal Integration
List two of the poor working and living conditions that many suffered moving into cities and working in factories.
Long Hours; Low Wages; Dangerous Working Conditions, Child Labor, etc.
Describe two ways in which black Americans were discriminated against during the early 1900s.
Jim Crow laws, segregation, separate but equal, literacy tests, etc.
This process was the first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process
This innovation in factories, especially the car industry, created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans.
What is the assembly line?
What are three groups that faced discrimination during the time of the Industrial Revolution?
Blacks, Natives, and Immigrants
This Gilded Age social view in relation to immigration based on people's feeling of competition over resources such as employment and housing.
What is a strike?
Disgusting, unsanitary, foul, lack of sewage drainage, etc.
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States. It also made transportation faster, easier, and more efficient.
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
Explain two ways in which cities changed as a result of increasing immigration.
Pockets of culture (Little Italy, China Town)
Lack of housing
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
a factor that brought immigrants to the U.S. throughout its history is a ______________.
Pull factor
seeking greater economic opportunity
hope for personal freedom
The processing center for European Immigrants arriving in NY
What is Ellis Island