Inventions
This invention/discovery was perfected by James Watt and helped power the Industrial Age.
What is The Steam Engine- 1769
Describe what Industrialism is.
The process of turning raw materials into finished products.
-a system that depends heavily on manufacturing goods, rather than farming or making things by hand.
This group of Immigrants were targeted with an "Exclusion Act" in 1882.
Chinese Immigrants
Who invented the airplane?
The Wright Brothers, December 1903
This is a building or set of buildings in which machines are used to produce large amounts of manufactured goods.
Factory
This communication invention involves sending coded messages over a wire.
What is the Telegraph.
Invented by Samuel Morse in 1844
What major event was process of change from an farming and handmade economy to one dominated by industry, machine manufacturing and automation?
The Industrial Revolution
What are some examples of PUSH factors?
Common “push” factors include violence, lack of jobs, inequality, political corruption, environmental issues and natural disasters, as well as lack of access to adequate health care and education.
What was the name of the railroad that would link the United States from East to West?
The Transcontinental Railroad
Describe a Tenement Building and what were the conditions?
A large building divided into apartments, usually in a poor area of a city.
With less than a foot of space between buildings, little air and light could get in. In many tenements, only the rooms on the street got any light, and the interior rooms had no ventilation (unless air shafts were built directly into the room). Later, builders began building new tenements, often using cheap materials and construction shortcuts. Even new, this kind of housing was at best uncomfortable and at worst highly unsafe.
What was Louis Pasteur's contribution to the Industrial Age... and to mankind?
Louis Pasteur believed that germs caused disease. Using this information, he created vaccines that helped prevent many common diseases, which helped people live longer.
Who patented the use of the Light Bulb?
October 1879- Thomas Edison
What were some of the things that migrants had to pass when processed through Ellis Island upon arrival in America?
All immigrants had to pass a medical inspection to make sure they weren't sick. Then they were interviewed by inspectors who would determine if they could support themselves in America. They also had to prove they had some money and, after 1917, that they could read.
This group of immigrants were brought in, especially in California, to build the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Chinese
Describe any characteristic of a Captain of Industry:
A leading business person who people respect and admire. Known for:
- treating workers well and charity
Men of inventiveness whose hard work and ingenious strategies transformed the American economy of the post-Reconstruction era and the early 20th century.
Henry Ford created what in 1908? Hint: he also helped improve the assembly line process.
What is the Model T Car
This NEGATIVE word is used to describe Industrialists poor treatment of the working class and competition.
Robber Baron
What was How the Other Half Lived and what did it attempt to expose?
Jacob Riis, immigrant, photographed "slum" life in the tenements with the hope of "exposing" the awful conditions that immigrants lived in.
What did Manifest Destiny have to do with the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Belief that the United States has a God given right to settle all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific: East to West, but there were people there already...
What discredited "theory" stated that the rich are rich and the poor are poor for a reason, not from opportunity, work ethic or political manipulation.
Social Darwinism
Louis Pasteur created vaccines for any of these diseases:
Cholera, Anthrax or Rabies
Describe any examples used to characterize The Gilded Age:
Describes the years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century (1900s)- the Golden Age.
- Characterized by a greatly expanding economy
- It was also a period where greedy, often corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth at the expense of the working class.
What is a Nativist?
The policy of protecting the interests of native born citizens against those of immigrants.
Gradually, these "NATIVISTS" lobbied successfully to restrict the flow of immigration.
This Robber Baron... (or was he a Captain of Industry?) essentially owned all aspects of the steel trade, which included the railroad system?
Andrew Carnegie
We used this organizational strategy to create something out of a pre-existing form of text:
A Found Poem
A composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, books, or primary sources, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.