Inventions
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
What is it called when a company is the only one from whom services can be obtained?
Monopoly
Oil - and richest American in history
John D. Rockefeller
What type of jobs did most of the immigrants have?
Factories
What did children miss out on by working long hours (one of the first reasons for reform)?
Education
Lightbulb
Thomas Edison
When a company controls all aspects of an item's production - from initial ingredients to shipping and selling
Vertical Integration
Automobile
Henry Ford
In what type of buildings did immigrants live?
Tenements
When laws were reformed, what was the minimum age for someone who was working a hazardous job?
18
What the "language" called that is used with the telegraph?
Morse Code
When a company purchases all of the competing companies of a certain product
Horizontal Integration
Steel
Andrew Carnegie
At the turn of the century, where were most of the immigrants coming from?
Name one of the business reasons that child labor declined after industrialization
*New types of machinery were too complicated
Created steel out of iron for building skyscrapers
Bessemer Process
What is Conspicuous Consumerism
purchasing goods to impress other people
Shipping industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
When discussing immigration, what do push and pull factors mean?
Push - why they leave their home
Pull - what makes them choose the new country
Name one of the three reasons children were valuable employees?
*Easier to control
*Small size
*Lower wages
What did Eli Whitney invent that was primarily used in the South?
cotton gin
When the government chooses NOT to get involved with companies and their business practices
Laissez - Faire
Banking
J.P. Morgan
What is the difference between the Melting Pot Theory and the Salad Bowl Theory?
Melting Pot means all cultures blend together; Salad Bowl means groups retain their separate characteristics.
What was the name of the photographer who took pictures of child labor in order to push for reform?
Lewis Hines