Growth of Industry
Vocabulary
Who are These People
Growth of the City
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100

What oil drilled from the ground replaced whale oil?

Petroleum

100

An underground railroad is called _________

Subway
100

Who was the most important steel manufacturer in America?

Andrew Carnegie

100

What is the type of community that is outside a city, often has fewer people but has more farms and land, and is characteristic of the countryside?

Rural

100

What does YMCA stand for?

Young Men's Christian Association

200

What thin, light-colored oil is used to light lamps and lubricate machines?

Kerosene

200

A resource that is used to make a product is called a __________

Raw Material

200

Who was the most important man in the oil business in America?

John D. Rockefeller

200

What is the type of community that is in the city, often has a lot of people and tall buildings?

Urban

200

What is the name of the philosophy that views the weak as unfit to survive?

Social Darwinism

300

What is the process to purify oil called?

Refine

300

A house in a row of houses built without any space between them is called a ____________

Row House

300

Who invented the phrase "survival of the fittest?"

Herbert Spencer

300

What is treating people unjustly because of the color of their skin?

Racial Discrimination

300

What type of store divided into different sections and were the new attraction in cities?

Department Stores

400

What is it called when people stop work in order to get something, such as more money or better benefits?

Strike

400

A set of rooms within a building that a person or family can rent to live in is called an ____________

Apartment

400

Who was the professor at Princeton Seminary that defended the Bible?

B. B. Warfield

400

What was the name of the group of people who controlled the way a city ran?

Machine

400

What is a book of questions and answers that teaches about God and the Bible?

Catechism

500

What term is used when oil is applied to machinery parts to help them move more easily?

Lubricate

500

A group of workers that unite to go on strike is called a ____________

Labor Union

500

Who developed a profitable railroad business without any government funds?

James J. Hill

500

What were old houses and buildings that were divided up into many small rooms called? (Often for the poorest people)

Tenements

500

What were 3 major problems in tenements

Pollution, Diseases, Drunkenness, Violence, Overcrowding