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A New Industrial Revolution
Big Business and Organized Labor
Cities Grow and Change
The New Immigrants
Education and Culture
100
Definition of pantent.
What is a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention?
100
These forms of businesses raised large amounts of capital by selling stock, or shares.
What are corporations?
100
In 1891, _____ ______ nailed two peach baskets to the walls of a gym in Springfield, Massachusettes. This person handed players a soccer ball and challenged them to throw the ball in teh basket. The new game was called basketball.
Who is James Naismith?
100
Most clung to traditional modes of worship, family life, and community relations. At the same time they worked hard to. . .
What is assimilation?
100
This is the requirement that children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?
200
Vast deposits of coal, iron, lead, and coppper now lay within the miners' pickaxes and how railroads fueled industrial growth caused this.
Why Industry boomed?
200
As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, states such as New York, denied the approval of new labor laws to protect workers. True or False?
What is false?
200
Reformers like Jane Addams worked for poor city dwellers. In 1889, she opened the Hull House, a settlement house in the slums of __________.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
200
This group of people argued that new immigrants wouldn't assimilitate because their languages, religions, and customs were too different. They also charged the immigrants took away jobs from Americans.
Who are nativists?
200
3 R's.
What is reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic?
300
The invention of the telegraph came after the invention of the telephone. True or False?
What is false?
300
Once a poor Scottish immigrant, this giant of big business worked his way up into the railroad business, and later entered the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
These were some of the company tactics used against labor.
What are lockouts, blacklists, and yellow-dog contracts?
300
Immigrants were drawn to America. Name reasons why. (List push and pull factors - at LEAST 2 of each)
What is a push factor: religious persecution, economic distress, lack of land, population, and rebellion? What is a pull factor: jobs, streets lined with gold, and a new start?
300
Other American writers were realists. Some such as ____ has been newspaper reporters. This person depicted the hardships of slum life in this person's novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
Who is Stephen Crane?
400
The military uses of the airplane did not become clear until this era, which had begun to alter the world of flying.
What is World War I (1914-1918)?
400
As a result of John D. Rockefeller forming ____________, small industries went out of business, but large industries followed his example.
What is the Standard Oil Trust?
400
In the 1850s, _______ ______ ________ planned Central Park in New York. Other cities followed suit. Parks, zoos, and gardens allowed urban dwellers to enjoy green grass and open air.
What is the Company of Frederick Law Olmsted?
400
This describes the living conditions of many city slums.
What are poor overcrowded tenements that carry disease and bacteria?
400
Yellow journalism is a form of sensational reporting style. Because of its topics these reasons describe ways it could be used as propaganda.
What are people being predjudice toward other religions, cultures, and customs? Organized crime also played a large role in newspaper articles.
500
In 1886, this inventor had an underwater telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean that sped communications from Europe.
Who is Cyrus Field?
500
This person travelled the country, advocating for labor unions and giving support for striking miners. This person called attention to child labor, and therefore was called. . .
Who is Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)?
500
In the 1880s, cities began to improve urban life. They installed _______ and _____ __ ______, ________, and ________ ______. Public health officials waged war on disease.
What are street lights and set up fire, sanitation, police departments?
500
Individual immigrants made major contributions. ____ and ____ were born in Scotland and one was important in the inventing industry. ____ and ____ , Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, established the motion picture industry in California. Italian born ____ became a famous orchestra conductor. Belgian immgrant _____ invented the first plastic.
Who are Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis Mayor, Arturo Toscanini, and Leo Baekeland?
500
The impact of the Industrial Revolution on education in America.
What is for example, the typewriter made long written papers easier to read and decipher? The long hours children walked to school were shortened because they took public transportation.