A New Industrial Revolution
He created the first electric plant.
Thomas Edison
Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
Entrepreneur
The rapid growth of city populations
Urbanization
Children of immigrants did this more rapidly than their parents.
Assimilation
Famous American author of Huckleberry Finn, whose name was actually Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain
Out of Charles Darwin, Orville Wright, George Eastman, and Henry Ford, the man who flew the first gas-powered airplane.
Orville Wright
A danger faced by workers in the year 1900
Working long hours under poor condition for low pay; child labor; breathing in fibers or dust in textile factories; burns or death from melted metal; inadequate fire safety
One problem resulting from the rapid growth of people living in large cities
fire; poor living conditions; garbage; disease
Passage by boat for immigrants was horrible as they were crammed below decks in the area called this.
Steerage
Yellow journalism
The sensational reporting style of the New York World and other newspapers
Known as "black gold"
Oil
a system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
Free enterprise
Buildings divided into many tiny apartments
Tenements
TWO reasons why some people moved from other countries to the US
the amount of farmland in Europe was shrinking; machines were replacing farm workers; religious freedom; political unrest; more and better jobs
Famous author that wrote realistic fiction about slum life
Stephen Crane
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing this
Andrew Carnegie’s philosophy, "the Gospel of Wealth"
The rich have a duty to improve society
Jane Addams opened one of the very first settlement houses, which helped the urban poor by providing things like this.
English lessons; music and sports for young people; nurseries for children of working mothers
This class of people usually lived on the outskirts of the city.
The wealthy/upper class
Shocked readers with The Awakening, a book about unhappily married women.
Kate Chopin
Credited with inventing the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
A poor Scottish immigrant who worked his way up in the railroad business and eventually took over every aspect of the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
The first electric streetcar system opened in this state
Virginia
The two locations where immigrants were inspected before entering the US
Ellis Island and Angel Island
Paul Dunbar
First African American to earn a living as a writer