Name that Inventor!
New Industries
Immigration
Labor Movement
Short Answer
100
Person who invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
This invention changed transportation at the turn of the 20th century
What is the electric streetcar
100
Immigration center located in New York, that took in people from Europe & Russia. People only had to wait about 1 day here
What is Ellis Island?
100
The organization that worked toward safer working conitions, ending child labor, and better wages.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
100
This way of doing business threatens the free enterprise system by not allowing competition.
What are monopolies?
200
Person who invented the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Person who founded the Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
Immigration center in San Francisco that took in mainly people from China (Asia). People waited long periods of time and faced harsh questioning.
What is Angel Island?
200
Which holiday is an event that showed how conditions improved for workers in the early 1900s?
What is Labor Day?
200
Describe how the automobile industry affected the oil industry.
What is: cars need oil, so when more cars began being produced and used, there was a greater demand for oil.
300
Person who invented the airplane
Who are the Wright Brothers?
300
The railroads helped the U.S. economy grow because they needed a lot of this material to make trains and tracks
What is steel?
300
Reason that immigrants chose to live in communities with others from their home country.
What is it was a way to help make the adjustment to the United States easier?
300
Name at least 2 differences between work in the 1800s and work in the 2000s (now)
What is wages, hours, working conditions, etc.
300
Describe how life might be hard for an immigrant who had just come to the U.S.
What is: they had to find jobs and a place to live, they may not have the skill set they need for certain jobs, and they may not speak the same language.
400
Person who invented the phonograph
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
This economic system states that business owners can decide what to produce and how much to charge for products or services.
What is free enterprise?
400
Random not immigration question! Name some ways that inventions like the telephone, airplanes, and electric power stations led to new industries.
What is: people started businesses to offer telephone service, airplane manufacturing became very popular, and entrepreneurs built power stations to bring electricity to cities.
400
These types of unions work toward getting people fair and safe treatment at work
What are labor unions?
400
This person developed a method that made electric light practical for everyday use AFTER Thomas Edison built a light bulb that glowed for two days.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
500
Person who invented a new way of making steel
Who is Henry Bessemer?
500
What were some of the effects of big businesses in the U.S.?
What is: americans worked in factories instead of farms, people moved to urban areas to find work, millions of jobs were created, and the U.S. became the world's leading producer of manufactured goods
500
Give at least 3 differences between Angel Island and Ellis Island
What is people from Asia/Europe, West Coast/East Coast, weeks' wait time/1 day wait time, very strict with questioning/not hard to get in
500
Name at least 2 things that led to the rise of labor unions.
What are workers earning low wages and working long hours, unhealthy and dangerous working conditoins, sweatshops, child labor, etc.
500
After Thomas Edison built an electric power station in New York City, this person designed the world's first system of electric streetcars.
Who is Frank Sprague?
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