A New Industrial Revolution
Created the first gas-powered airplane.
Who were the Wright Brothers?
Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit.
Who is an entrepreneur?
The rapid growth of city populations.
What is Urbanization?
Came to America because of job opportunity, persecution, and a new life.
What is immigrants?
Made his stories realistic by capturing the speech patterns of southerns.
Who was Mark Twain?
Where the industrial boom happen.
What is the west?
Combined his business into the giant Carnegie Steel Company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A house center offering help to the urban poor.
What is a settlement house?
Large compartments that usually held cattle but held immigrants as they came to America.
What is Steerage?
Created the first modern mass circulation news paper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
Setup a research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Who was Thomas Edison?
People who were the majority of some industries.
Who were woman and children?
The first electric streetcar system was made here.
What is Richmond, Virgina?
The main city where European immigrants settled.
What is New York City?
Describe the sensational reporting style.
What is yellow journalism?
was the nation's steel-making capital.
What is Pittsburgh?
A group of Philadelphia clothing workers who formed a union.
What are the Knights of Labor?
Worked hard for poor city dwellers and opened Hull House, which was a settlement house.
Who is Jane Addams?
The process of becoming another culture.
What is assimilation?
Is the requirement that children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?
Was the first message sent on a telephone.
What is "Mr Watson, come here. I want you."?
The Triangle Fire occurred during this year.
What is 1911?
This was the first professional basketball team.
What is the Cincinnati Red Stockings?
Helped people find homes and feel less isolated.
What is ethnic neighborhoods?
Critics consider it to be one of the greatest american novels.
What are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?