Industry/Businesses
The northern and southern states had economies based primarily on this.
What is agriculture
These were journalists who exposed corruption in business.
Who are muckrakers
Spreading diseases were caused by this.
What is filth
Immigrants had these work conditions.
What is backbreaking and dangerous jobs
This invention is used to transmit speech, which Alexander Graham Bell invented.
What is the telephone
People used this resource as medicine.
What is petroleum
At age 42, this president was the youngest president in the nation’s history.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
Horses pull this transportation on tracks.
What is Streetcars
What is work
This is a manufacturing system in which each worker performs an assigned task again and again.
What is the assembly line
In 1859, this person drilled a well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, which struck oil, leading to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry.
Who is Edwin L. Drake
This person received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, they were one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Who is Jane Addams
In large cities the poorest people and immigrants lived in.
What is Tenements
Immigrants settled in neighborhoods with these people.
Who are people from the same country
Who built a model airplane that was powered by a steam engine?
Who is Samuel Langley
By 1890, Carnegie dominated this industry.
What is the steel industry
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led this movement for 50 years.
What is the women’s rights movement
Chicago’s hull house was founded by these people in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
This many Jews fled their homeland from unfair laws?
What is 2.5 million Jews
These people designed a plane powered by a gasoline engine.
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright (Wright Brothers)
These were two methods of making steel.
What are the Bessemer process and the open-hearth process
These people demanded rules to control the railroad oligopoly.
Who are reformers
This person started building upwards not outwards when spaces got limited.
Who is Louis Sullivan
What did Americans fear about immigrants?
What is taking away jobs
This person invented the electric dishwasher.
Who is Josephine Garis Cochrane