Industry/Businesses
Who wrote The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair
What does the calculator help us do?
solve math equations
What countries had the most immigrants come to America?
Accept Ireland or Germany
What year did immigrants begin arriving from Eastern and Southern Europe?
Mid 1800s
Who created the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
What type of people worked in the meatpacking plants?
Immigrants
When was the battery originally invented?
around the 1800s
What city has more than 10 ethnic neighborhoods and has an immigration receiving station on the East Coast?
New York City (NYC)
When did a lot of people leave their homeland and come to the United States?
Late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who was one of the three creators of the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell, Johann Philipp, and Reis Antonio Meucci
Jane ______ wrote about what legislation needed to be passed to outlaw child labor.
Addams
Where did most new immigrants come from?
Rural areas
What was one of the of the biggest problems for cities?
garbage, horse manure, sewage, disease
How many Jews fled such treatment between 1880 and 1924?
2.5 Million
Who created the fountain pen?
Petrache Poenaru
What social issue was Jane Addams concerned about?
Child Labor
The first Ferris Wheel was created for the 1933 World’s Columbian Exposition World Fair which showed off what new revolutionary energy source?
electricity
Name 3 things that would appear as cities would grow in size.
[Accept 3 variations] skyscrapers, parks, bridges, public transportation (buses, trolleys, street cars, subways)
When did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1882
In what country was the camera made?
France
What combination of chemical foods was combined to make the brine that Upton Sinclair describes?
Salt and Vinegar
Upton Sinclair describes the horrifying conditions in what cities' meatpacking plants?
Chicago
What would ethnic groups do after immigrating to America in bigger cities?
Form smaller communities with the same ethnicity
Where did most immigrants from Europe end up in the United States?
New York
When was the Bessemer Process made?
1856