A New Industrial Revolution
The lightbulb creator
Who is Thomas Edison
The definition of a monopoly
What is a company that controls most or all businesses in a particular industry
Urbanization definition
What is the rapid growth of city populations
2.5% of immigrants were from this continent between 1865 and 1915
What is Asia
Typical school day hours
What is 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Definition of Assembly Line
What is the manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt
AFL initials stand for what
What is American Federation of Labor
Name of reformer who worked hard for poor city dwellers
Jane Addams
The amount of immigrants who entered the United States between 1865 and 1915
What is 25 million people
Mark Twain pen name
What is Samuel Clemens
Revolutionizer of the shoe industry with a machine that sewed the top of shoes
Who is Jan Matzeliger
The union formed by a group of Philadelphian clothing workers in 1869
What is the Knights of Labor
The installation of these in the 1880s improved urban life
What are street lights and police departments
Year where congress passed a law that denied immigrants who could not read their own language
What is 1917
Writer who wrote "rags-to-riches"
Who is Horatio Alger
Introducer of the lightweight camera in 1888
Who is George Eastman
Rockefeller age when he first invested in oil
What is age 23
Decade where Frederick Law Olmsted planned central park in New York
What is the 1850s
Country where the food kielbasa is from
What is Poland
Amount of people reached by Chautauquas in 10,000 towns each year
What is 5 million
In what year did Wilbur and Orville Wright test a gas-powered airplane
What is 1903
Spelling of the middle name of the man who formed the Standard Oil Trust
What is D-a-v-i-s-o-n
Day and month of Chicago Fire in 1871
What is October 8th
Brigiband is a bandit in this language
What is Italian
Before this year fewer than half of American children went to school
What is 1870