Key Figures
This businessman built Standard Oil into one of the most powerful corporations in America.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This invention allowed people to communicate over long distances through speech.
What is the telephone?
The process of shifting from an agricultural economy to manufacturing.
What is Industrialization?
A young lion runs away after believing he caused his father's death, while his uncle takes control of the kingdom.
What is The Lion King?
What is the name of the process plants use to convert sunlight into chemical energy?
What is photosynthesis?
This famous inventor is often associated with the invention of the practical incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This invention made it possible to produce steel more cheaply and efficiently.
What is the Bessemer process?
This term describes the rapid growth of cities.
What is Urbanization?
A young hobbit inherits a ring that must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom, while a fellowship forms to protect him.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
The amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This steel magnate became one of America's wealthiest men and later donated much of his fortune to libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This invention helped revolutionize transportation by using an internal combustion engine powered by gasoline.
What is the automobile?
This happens when one company controls most or all of a particular market.
What is a Monopoly?
A man discovers that his entire life has been secretly broadcast to the world, and his hometown is actually a massive television set.
What is The Truman Show?
This is the name of the line at 0° latitude that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This railroad tycoon became known for controlling major railroad networks across America.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This technology allowed factories and homes to use alternating current electricity over long distances.
What is the AC electrical system?
This federal law attempted to regulate railroad prices and practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
A dentist's office, and a plastic bag become part of an elaborate escape plan.
What is Finding Nemo?
This is the type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and hardens.
What is Igneous Rock?
This inventor developed the practical alternating-current electrical system that competed with Thomas Edison's system.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Thomas Edison helped popularize this invention, which allowed people to record and play back sound.
What is the phonograph?
An economic system that allows people to choose what to buy, where to work, and what to produce.
What is the Free Enterprise System?
A magical object called the Mirror of Erised shows its viewers their deepest desires rather than their reflections.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
What is the term for the transfer of heat through direct contact between particles?
What is Conduction?