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Vocabulary
People
City Life
Immigration
Industry
100
Henry Ford created this in order to mass produce automobiles.
What is the assembly line?
100
He made many inventions such as the light bulb, phonograph, and electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Crowded apartments where immigrants lived.
What are tenements?
100
A person who was not nice to immigrants.
What is a 'Nativist'?
100
What was the technology that was invented to make steel cheaper and stronger?
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
A person who starts a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
200
This man created the Standard Oil Trust and monopolized the American oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
Cities were able to expand outward and upward during the 1800's. Name 3 things that made this possible.
What are: Skyscrapers/Steel, Elevators,Trains, Subways, and public transportation.
200
Where did the majority of immigrants arrive from in the late 1800's?
What is Southern/Eastern Europe?
200
Name 2 things that oil could be refined into.
What are kerosene, lubricants, or gasoline.
300
Originally the owner of a large fleet of ships, this man sold off his entire fleet and got into the railroad business, where he was very successful.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
300
City living conditions were not always great, but much was done to improve them in the 1800's. Name 2 things that were done to improve city living conditions.
What are streetlights, fire stations, hospitals, the Salvation Army, Settlement Houses.
300
Name 3 reasons why people immigrated to the United States.
What are job opportunities, political unrest, religious persecution, or natural disaster (famine).
300
Name 3 things that allowed industry to grow and prosper in the late 1800's?
What are inventions, natural resources, and government policies?
400
This required children to attend school through 10th grade.
What is 'Compulsory Education'?
400
She opened the first settlement house in Chicago and helped immigrants assimilate into the American culture.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
The first ever professional baseball team appeared in 1869. What was the name of that team and where were they based out of?
Cincinnati Red Stockings
400
Name 2 famous immigrants that we studied in Chapter 18. Hint: Both are from Scotland.
Who are Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland) and Andrew Carnegie (Scotland).
400
Name 3 of Thomas Edison's inventions.
What are the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and electricity.
500
Writing that portrayed slum life, poverty, and life as it was for most American people.
What is 'Realism'?
500
He opened the first modern, mass-circulation newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
500
City life could be very fun and entertaining. Name 3 things you could do if you lived in a city in the 1800's in your leisure time.
What are shopping (department stores), Circuses, Orchestra, Art Gallery, Museums, Professional Sports.
500
One particular racial group was discriminated against by a law that restricted their immigration into the country. Who was that group and what was the name of that law?
Who are the Chinese? What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
Where was Thomas Edison's invention headquarters? Need the city and state.
Where is Menlo Park, New Jersey?