Industry/Business
How long did factory workers work?
10-12 hours a day, accept any in between
What is a progressive?
a kind of business
Why were people immigrating to America?
Better opportunity
Why did people leave their homelands?
Economic Hardships
Name this 264-foot (80-m) mammoth built for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This was the tallest attraction ever built until roller coasters.
Ferris Wheel
How many days a week did factory workers work?
6 days a week
What was the “new woman?”
women who were educated
How many people who lived in tenements in the late 1800s shared cold-water taps and toilets?
12
In 1907 did the economic growth of immigrants increase or decrease?
Decrease
Name this way of transportation, built between 1870 and 1916, which transported many things in shorter times than wagons and walking.
Railroad or trains
Name this movement where people voted against the use of alcohol.
Temperance Movement
Why were the muckrakers called muckrakers?
they “rake” in “muck”
What was the capital city in the U.S. during the Progressive Era?
Philadelphia
Where did most immigrants live when they first moved into the cities?
Tenements
Name this inventor who was credited with the invention of the phonograph and the lightbulb.
Thomas Edison
Who was credited with the invention of the Model T?
Henry Ford, do not accept "Ford."
true or false-president Theodore Roosevelt did not support business regulation
false
Garbage, manure piled up on the city streets, and filth, lead to what spreading throughout the city?
Disease
What were the groups of people who would house together in neighborhoods that shared common cultures or heritages?
Ethnic Groups
Name this inventor who was credited with the invention of the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
By 1900, give an estimation of how many women had joined the work industrial workforce.
5 million
Who ran the New York City democratic political machine?
William M Tweed
What groups run orphanages, prisons, hospitals, and recreation centers?
Religious groups
What was the name of the Act that Congress passed to legally keep Chinese workers from entering the United States?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Name the author who wrote the book, The Jungle, and exposed the horrifying conditions in the meat packing plants.
Upton Sinclair