Inventions
The problem is that I have all these cattle grazing my land and they keep going where they aren't supposed to. What can I use?
Barbed wire
I learned how to make steel faster and cheaper in England when I saw Henry Bessemer use his blast furnace.
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford brought together the car and ________ which made buying a car so affordable for many Americans
assembly line
I started with nothing. I made a deal with my former owner to farm some of his land in exchange he gets most of the money from selling the crops.
Sharecropper
I don't like my working conditions. I'm going to the union! We're going to go on _____.
Strike
The ground is so tough here in the Great Plains. What can I use to till up the ground?
Steel Plow
I helped protect the settler from attacks from native americans. They thought we were pretty tough.
Buffalo soldiers
This was the idea that helped farmers reinvigorate the soil. The idea came from George Washington Carver.
Crop rotation
This time period was remarkable for the economic growth experienced in the United States but also for the amount of poverty that plagued the masses.
Gilded Age
After the civil war the South could no longer sustain itself through ________ because all of their slave labor was gone.
agriculture
The land is so dry. I can't get anything from back home to grow in the Great Plains. What can I grow that doesn't require a lot of water?
Wheat
Most people get me confused for the person who invented peanut butter. That's probably because I did invent over three hundred things using peanuts and sweet potatoes.
George Washington Carver
Tractor
After the civil war I farmed land for someone else. We're going 50/50 since I already have most of what I need.
Tenant farmer
When a neutral party has to get involved with a dispute to settle it.
Arbitration.
Want steel cheaper and faster? Get a _____.
Blast furnace
I taught a certain someone what he needed to know about making steel cheaper and faster.
Henry Bessemer
What innovation did Cornelius Vanderbilt come up with?
A united railway system that allowed for easier and cheaper transportation by train.
The upper layer of soil that has grass growing on it is called what?
sod
The reason why so many children were injured and didn't get an education is....
Child labor
Ow! I just stubbed my toe in the dark. I wish I had something to let me see at night.
light bulb
I learned what I need to know from a guy in England to make steel cheaper and faster.
Andrew Carnegie
What was the name of the law that gave settlers of the Great Plain 160 acres of land if they built a home on the property and farmed it?
Homestead act
a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency
division of labor
Why did the South have to move away from agriculture after the civil war and what did they move to?
much of the south was destroyed by the war.
industrialization.