New Inventions
This was the name for the time period that was defined by the change in how products were made. (Made by hand in homes to made by machines in factories)
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These were often blocked or chained shut to make sure workers didn't take any unauthorized break.
What are the exits/doors?
The majority of immigrants coming into the US from 1880-1910 were from this continent.
What is Europe?
This is what Union members could do to force their bosses to negotiate with them.
What is strike?
This invention of Edison made it possible to record sound.
What is the phonograph?
This was the machine that separated the seeds from the cotton and made the demand for slave labor increase.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Workers often were paid very low these in return for long hours of work.
What are wages?
This was one of the main reasons for immigrants to move to the US.
What is to escape poverty/persecution?
This is one thing unions fought for on behalf of workers.
What is better pay/shorter days/safer working conditions/benefits/ending child labor?
What is separating the slate (rock) from the coal?
This was the man responsible for creating the first working telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Workers typically worked this many days a week.
What is 6?
These were the run down apartments many poor immigrant families lived in.
What are tenement apartments?
This is one thing striking workers had to worry about.
What is not being payed/being attacked or harassed?
Tenement apartments often didn't have this in them.
This was the man responsible for making improvements on the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Common jobs for these people were "newsies" or breaker boys.
What are children?
This was the island that all European immigrants came to when they arrived in the US.
What is Ellis Island?
What is vote on it?
Over 1000 workers a day had this happen to them.
What is get injured on the job?
This was the process that made it easier and cheaper to make steal.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Workers were not provided with any of these which would keep them from becoming injured while on the job.
What is PPE/Protective Equipment?
What is Angel Island?
This is one of the two states with the highest union membership today.
What is New York/Hawaii?
Almost a hundred workers a day had this happen to them.
What is killed in accidents at work?