Inventions
Thomas Edison invented this.
What is the lightbulb?
Immigrants traveled on these to get to America.
What are boats?
Riots caused public distrust of these organizations.
What is Labor Unions?
A person who starts a business.
Who is an entrepreneur?
With limited room in cities, these buildings started to be created.
What are skyscrapers?
This invention helped people and goods travel across the country.
What are trains/railroads?
This group supplied unskilled workers to industrialization.
What are Immigrants?
Labor Unions are the result of this revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
People who enjoyed a comfortable life, but not great wealth.
Who is the Middle Class?
These entrepreneurs monopolized steel and oil.
Who are Rockefeller and Carnegie?
The Wright brothers invented this.
What is Airplanes?
Immigrants would work for these companies.
What are factories/sweatshops?
At this time, this was not a goal for Labor Unions.
What is paid health insurance?
Organizations of workers who seek better pay and working conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
Entrepreneurs would rely on this to make money.
What are hard-working employees?
This invention helped make mass production of goods possible.
What is the Assembly Line?
This group was afraid of the new wave of immigrants.
What are Native-born Americans?
Most labor union leaders wanted...
What is improved working conditions?
Shops or factories where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions.
What is Sweatshops?
This business tactic is the buying of all companies of a certain type.
What is Horizontal integration?
This invention, helped train stations have consistent arrival and departure times.
What is Timezones?
This motivated immigrants to come to America.
What are Pull Factors?
This was a goal of Labor Unions.
What are higher wages, better working conditions, and shorter work hours?
The practice of combining different companies into one.
What is Consolidate?
This business tactic is the combining of companies that complete every step for the production of a single product.
What is vertical integration?