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2nd I.R. Rise of Factories
2nd I.R. ECON
2nd I.R. Factory Workers
2nd I.R. Inventors
Jim Crow
100
Types of jobs that increased during the Industrial Revolution:
Factory/Industrial
100
DAILY DOUBLE: List at least one Industrial Revolution era tycoon from America and describe what industry they controlled:
Rockefeller, Oil Carnegie, Steel Ford, Mass Production of Cars Vanderbilt, Railroads
100
Fear of foreigners
Xenophobia
100
Completed the 1st successful airplane flight:
Wright Brothers
100
Amendment that formally abolished slavery in America
13th Amendment
200
How the economy shifted in America during the 2nd Industrial Revolution:
What is Agricultural/Agrarian/Farming to Manufacturing/Industrial/Factories
200
What ethnicity of people were mostly employed to help build the railroad from west to east during the Industrial Revolution?
Chinese and other minorities
200
Formed during the 2nd Industrial Revolution in response to the difficult working conditions that unskilled laborers faced:
Labor Unions
200
American inventor best known for inventing the first practical electric light bulb:
Thomas Edison
200
DAILY DOUBLE: Provide two examples of Jim Crow Laws that prevented African Americans from voting during segregation:
Poll Tax, Literacy Test and Grandfather Clause
300
Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US:
What is Transcontinental Railroad
300
One company or business controlling a product or service:
Monopoly
300
Describe three examples of difficult conditions faced by factory workers during the 2nd Industrial Revolution:
Child labor, long hours, no minimum wage, no health care, no vacation or sick leave.
300
What is Alexander Graham Bell best known for inventing?
Telephone
300
Felt that African Americans should accept segregation for the moment and focus on acquiring farming and job skills
Booker T. Washington
400
Describe four power sources developed during the Industrial Revolution:
What is oil, steam, coal and electricity
400
Prices and wages are determined by COMPETITION (supply and demand):
Capitalism
400
Law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States (was not effective):
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
400
Daily Double: What is Samuel Morse best known for inventing?
Telegraph
400
Felt that African Americans should fight for full rights immediately (founded the NAACP)
W.E.B. DuBois
500
DAILY DOUBLE: Describe at least three effects the railroads had on society during the Industrial Revolution in America
What is new towns, time zones, jobs for immigrants, economic benefits (trade), safer and faster travel.
500
Type of capitalism that lets companies conduct business without government intervention:
Laissez-faire Economics
500
DAILY DOUBLE: One of the 1st labor unions in the United States. Founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886:
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
500
Inventor of Model T automobile and mass production/assembly line
Henry Ford
500
Describe the impact of Plessy V. Ferguson:
Legalized segregation (separate but equal was ok).