Industry
Inventors
Big Business
Immigration and the Growth of US Cities
Labor Unions and the Progressive Movement
100
This is given when someone has the legal right to produce and sell an invention.
What is a patent?
100
Was the 1st to place a gas engine on a buggy to invent the "motor wagon."
Who are Frank and Charles Duryea?
100
Someone who buys stock in a corporation.
What is a stockholder?
100
The region of Europe where most of the immigrants came to the US from in the late 1800s.
What is Eastern Europe?
100
Occurs when business owners and workers agree to sit down to discuss wages and working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
200
Henry Ford set this up as a way to cut the time needed to finish making the Model T from 12 1/2 hours to 93 minutes.
What is an assembly line?
200
The Brit who found a way to make steel cheaply.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
200
I built the largest steel plant in the U.S. in 1872.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Where immigrants from the east entered the U.S. for the 1st time.
What is Ellis Island?
200
This gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution?
300
This was the easiest and fastest way to move goods to and from factories in the late 1800s.
What is the railroad system?
300
This person is famous for inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
Founder of the Standard Oil company in 1870.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
segregated communities where immigrants were forced to live once they arrived in the US in the 1800s.
What are ghettoes?
300
Known as a Progressive US President and for setting land aside for the National Park System.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
400
This industry grew largely in the Northeast where many of the natural resources needed to make it were easy to access.
What is the steel industry?
400
This person is given credit for inventing the light bulb and phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
Involves trade across state borders.
What is interstate commerce?
400
The city in Minnesota that grew as a result of the milling industry.
What is Minneapolis?
400
Journalists known for exposing the societal "ills" and injustices by writing about them in newspapers and magazines in the late 1800s.
What is a muckraker?
500
These two, when attached together, could produce the large amounts of electricity needed in the factories.
What is a dynamo and a turbine?
500
This African American inventor helped bring the shoe industry into the machine age.
Who is Jan Matzeliger?
500
A French term that describes the "hands off" approach the US government took with Big Business in the late 1800s.
What is Laissez faire?
500
The city in Pennsylvania that grew as a result of the steel industry.
What is Pittsburhg?
500
A federal law that stated that foods and drugs sold to the public must have labels listing their contents.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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