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The incandescent light bulb was created by this man as more efficient way of lighting homes.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
The inexpensive system of moving large amounts of people from one place to another.
What is mass transit?
100
The travel accommodations for immigrants were what crowded and dirty part of the ship.
What is steerage?
100
A number of people sharing ownership of a business.
What is a corporation?
100
These helped encourage people to buy American made goods.
What are protective tariffs?
200
This process purified iron into steel using carbon.
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
These man made lakes were used to provide clean water to urban areas.
What are reservoirs?
200
After the 1870's the majority of immigrants came from here.
Where is Eastern and Southern Europe?
200
This outlawed any trust that restrained trade among several states.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
An industry leader known to exploit the poor and create monopolies.
What is Robber Baron?
300
This man patented the telephone.
Who Alexander Graham Bell?
300
This type of urban housing was designed to hold as many people as possible.
What is tenement housing?
300
This type of immigrant had friends or family in the United States already.
What is a chain immigrant?
300
This man held the majority of the steel industry in the US.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
Samuel Gomper created this labor union.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
400
24 of these were created to help with railroad transportation.
What are time zones?
400
This nickname created by Mark Twain described American society in the late 1800's.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
New immigrants attended these programs to learn how to speak, eat, and dress like Americans.
What are Americanization Programs?
400
This strike left a legacy of distrusting radicalism.
What is the Haymarket Square Strike?
400
This was formed to monitor railroads that crossed state lines.
What is ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)?
500
Policies that allowed business to operate under minimal regulation.
What are laissez-faire policies?
500
This was created by Lamarcus Thompson in 1884.
What is the roller coaster?
500
Belief that native born Americans were superior to new immigrants.
What is nativism?
500
The system of gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development.
What is vertical integration?
500
The ruthless business partner of Andrew Carnegie.
Who is Henry Frick?