Vocab
This production method required workers to complete one specific task as a product moved along a line.
What is the assembly line?
This practice employed young children in factories and other difficult or dangerous jobs.
What is child labor?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
A wealthy industrialist builds a powerful suit of armor after being captured overseas and uses it to fight the weapons he once produced.
What is Iron Man?
Known as the King of Pop, this artist released the album Thriller.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This term describes producing large quantities of identical products quickly and efficiently.
What is mass production?
This term describes the movement of people from one country to another to live.
What is immigration?
This 1849 movement brought hundreds of thousands of people west hoping to find gold in California.
What was the California Gold Rush?
A family of superheroes tries to live normal lives while hiding their extraordinary abilities.
What is The Incredibles?
This British singer became famous for songs such as "Rolling in the Deep" and "Hello."
Who is Adele?
This type of business is owned by shareholders who invest money in the company.
What is a corporation?
This negative label described wealthy business leaders accused of gaining fortunes through unfair practices.
What is a robber baron?
This 1862 law offered western land to settlers willing to live on and improve it.
What was the Homestead Act?
A group of children enters a magical wardrobe and discovers a kingdom ruled by an evil queen.
What is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
This singer was nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his famous 1973 song.
Who is Billy Joel?
This business arrangement places multiple companies under common control to reduce competition.
What is a trust?
These crowded apartment buildings housed many working-class families in growing American cities.
What are tenements?
This 1863 presidential proclamation declared enslaved people in areas still rebelling against the United States to be free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
A boy raised by wild animals must face a tiger who threatens the jungle where he lives.
What is The Jungle Book?
This group released "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia."
Who is ABBA?
This belief supported limited government interference in business and the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This organization represented skilled workers and fought for better wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This battle in 1863 is often considered the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederacy lost its ability to invade the North.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
A boy befriends an alien who was accidentally left behind on Earth and helps him return home.
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
This artist was the lead man for the band Nirvana and helped bring grunge music into the mainstream with the album Nevermind.
Who is Kurt Cobain?