Vocabulary
sweatshops
American financier and banker
J.P Morgan
What city had the first skyscrapers?
Chicago
What did Farmers in the Plains use to make their houses?
sod
Invented Steel; was one of the richest men in the 1880s?
Andrew Carnegie
being scarce or in short supply
scarcity
He invented blue jeans?
Levi Strauss
The City where the two Railroads met in 1869?
Promontory Point, Utah
This helped bring safety into businesses?
Triangle Fire
Chinese Workers brought this to America?
Dynamite
a vein of metal ore in the Earth?
Lode
Invented the Telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What city did the Irish population move too?
Boston
What was the first labor union called?
Knights of Labor
The sole right to exclude others making, using, selling an invention?
He was known for his cattle trail?
Jesse Chisholm
Where did the Union Pacific Start building their railroad?
Omaha, Nebraska
Tell me 4 problems that Immigrants faced?
Jobs, Housing, language, religion
How long did it take to get from California to New York by train?
The selling of goods in large quantities to be retailed by others?
wholesale
Sold Supplies to gold miners in California?
Leland Standford
No safety devices, companies didn't take blame, unskilled workers, long hours
Tell me three problems that came with Gold Mining?
What did Americans get from Mexico that helped grow Western Movement?
Cattle