Important people
Inventor of the steamboat
Robert Fulton
Time of great progress and growth in the way goods were made
Industrial Age
Inventor of who built the first gasoline powered car and developed the assembly line
Henry Ford
Where was the first successful airplane flight?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Which amendment created an income tax based on how much money a person makes each year?
Sixteenth
The man who brought the steel industry to America
Andrew Carnegie
Manufacturing businesses that used factories to produce goods
industries
Garrett Morgan
What were laws created to protect children from dangerous jobs and long working hours?
Child labor laws
Which Amendment allowed for the election of the U.S. senators instead of being appointed by state legislature?
Seventeenth
Founded standard oil
John D. Rockefeller
Moving platform on which workers add one specific part as a product moves to the next worker
Assembly line
Who built and launched the first successful liquid-fuel rocket?
Robert Goddard
What was the public transportation that carried passengers either above or below ground on a track?
Subway system
Which amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for several years?
Eighteenth
Inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
First car built on Henry Ford's assembly line
Model T
Who built and flew the first successful airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright
What occurred between 1900 and 1920 when government focused on being more efficient and better meeting the desires of voters?
Progressive movement
Where was the center of the first skyscraper architecture?
Chicago, Illinois
Inventor of the phonograph, battery, and improved the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Lisense proving ownership of an invention
Patent
What is unproven theory that animals slowly turned into other animals over billions of years instead of being created by God?
Evolution