Inventions
This invention allowed for faster land travel, letting people drive down roads and highways in style.
What is the automobile (car)?
He invented the lightbulb to allow for work during all hours of the day.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This phrase was used to describe captains of industry that were being greedy.
What is a robber baron?
Due to the large number of immigrants coming to the U.S., there was shortage of this necessary living space.
What is housing?
The Gold Rush of 1849 occurred in this state.
What is California?
This invention brought comfort to children as well as allowed children to have a new toy to play with.
What is the teddy bear?
He invented the telephone to allow for easier communication.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell.
He is known for his Standard Oil Company that opened in 1870.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This group of immigrants were discouraged in the Northeastern U.S. from applying for jobs by the saying, "No _______ Need Apply."
What is the Irish?
This was invented by John Deere to break up the tough soil of the Great Plains.
What is the steel plow?
This invention allowed for faster air travel across the country as well as around the world.
What is the airplane?
These brothers invented the airplane to make travel faster.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
This act put a halt on Chinese immigration for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Law that gave any adult citizen the right to claim 160 acres of government land if they farmed it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This invention allowed for people to listen to news from all over the country.
What is the radio.
He invented the modern day film, allowing for people to watch recorded videos at theaters.
Who is Louis Le Prince?
Before the railroad industry, Vanderbilt started his career in this industry involving boats.
What is the shipping industry?
People from these countries came to America to escape oppressive government.
(Name at least one country)
What are Germany and France?
What is the Election of 1876?
Henry Ford created this process to increase production of automobiles. It involved each person specializing in a given task rather than working on the whole product.
What is the assembly line?
This person invented the teddy bear to bring comfort to children.
Who is Morris Michtom?
J.P. Morgan helped bail out the U.S. economy during this panic.
What is the Panic of 1907?
People from Ireland came to America to escape extreme scarcity of food. Name the word that refers to the scarcity of food resulting in starvation.
What is famine?
The term given to Northerners who took advantage of the South after the Civil War.
What are carpetbaggers?