technologies
Thomas Edison (1880)
Who invented the incandescent light bulb?
William "Boss" Tweed
Railroads
What increased transportation exponentially in urban cities?
immigrants
Who is someone to come to a country from another country?
Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
Who invented the telephone?
Credit Mobilier
What was a huge scandal involving the Union Pacific Railroad and fake bonds?
Demand
What is the need for available goods in the open market?
Disease
What was a byproduct of a concentrated population in cities?
Social Darwinism
What was the idea of "survival of the fittest" when applied to the marketplace?
William LeBaron Jenney (1884)
Who created the first skyscraper?
Tammany Hall
What was the main political machine controlling NY state politics?
Laissez-Faire
What diminishes the governments control in the business industry
Tenement houses
Where did the poor live in large cities?
"Gilded"
Thomas Nast
Who was a critic of Tweed that created political cartoons exposing his corruptions?
Unskilled workers
Who was needed in the workforce to provide cheap labor?
Native American Suffering
Women and Children
Who had to become wage earners during the 19th century to help support their families?
Sewing Machine
What made sewing faster and less labor intensive and led to the mass production of clothes?
Corruption in government
Socialism
What was an economic system that allowed society to own and control the means of production?
New York City
What was the nations capital of industry, finance, shiping and trade, and immigratioin during the late 19th century?
Urbanization
What was the cause of overcrowding and pollution?