Manufacturing Centers
This is the area located in the Northeast region and became known for manufacturing textiles (cloth products).
What is New England?
He made $100 million dollars in the shipping and railroad industry, after starting a ferry service in New York.
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This is the name of the island in New York where immigrants from Europe would check in and be processed as a new immigrant to the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
This term refers to the person in control of the corrupt political machines during industrialization.
Who is a political boss?
This Midwest city is known for manufacturing automobiles such as the Ford Model-T.
What is Detroit, Michigan?
He was originally from Scotland, making his fortune in the steel industry and was considered the "World's Richest Man" after selling his business to J.P. Morgan.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He is most famous for inventing the practical lightbulb, but the phonograph, the battery, and the first movie camera were also some of the inventions he patented (he had over 1,000).
Who is Thomas Edison?
This is the name of the island in San Francisco where immigrants from Asia would check in and be processed as a new immigrant to the United States.
What is Angel Island?
These were often built in large cities as a way to transport factory workers to and from work.
What are electric cable cars?
This city became the manufacturing center for steel during the industrial revolution.
What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He helped make cars more affordable by using the assembly line method of production, allowing the average American to purchase his Model-T.
Who is Henry Ford?
To gain passage to the United States, most immigrants could only afford tickets in this overcrowded area of the ship.
What is the steerage?
Cities grew so rapidly that these poorly constructed buildings were often where factory workers and their families were forced to live.
What are tenaments?
This "Windy City" was known as the manufacturing center for meatpacking and processing.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
He developed a bank, that still exists today, that gave loans for businesses like General Electric to help finance the build factories and purchase the supplies they needed.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
These two brothers successfully invented the airplane and took their first flight on December 17th, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
This term refers to mistreatment of a person based on their beliefs, a motivation for many immigrants who migrated to the United States,
What is religious persecution?
This is the name of the settlement house established by Jane Addams in Chicago, which assisted new immigrants with jobs, education, and even childcare.
What is the Hull House?
This is the nickname given to Detroit, Michigan during the Industrial Revolution, thanks Henry Ford.
What is "Motor City?"
This process of making steel was the cheapest and most effective method to making steel, just ask Andrew Carnegie.
What is the Bessemer process?
This is how long the first flight fo Orville & Wilbur Wright lasted.
What is 12 seconds?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This is the name of the most infamous and corrupt political boss who controlled the political machines in New York City during the industrial revolution.
Who is Boss Tweedy?