Vocabulary
What is an entrepreneur?
Why were immigrants willing to work for low wages?
Competition for jobs was fierce.
Who created the light bulb?
Thomas Edison.
What system did railroads adopt in 1884?
Time zones.
In 1884, Samuel Worse created what to send a message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland?
Telegraph
What is a patent?
A grant by the government to create and sell an invention for a set period of time.
What countries began to immigrate to America after the Civil War?
Europe and Asia
Inspired by Thomas Edison, who created the technology to send electricity over long distances? (HINT: George W.)
George Westinghouse
How many transcontinental railroad lines were in the United States by 1883?
Three
This machine was created by Elias Howe’s to create clothes.
A system depending on machinery to carry out tasks once done with hand tools.
Mass production.
How many immigrants arrived in America in 1881?
3 quarters of a million
Who patented the telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
How many countries divided the globe into time zones for the railroads?
27
After Thomas Edison patents the electric light bulb, he installs what in New York City?
Street lights
What is a suspension bridge?
A bridge suspended by steel cables.
By 1905, how many immigrants came to America per year?
One million
Guglielmo Marconi invented the wireless telegraph which led to what development in the future?
The radio
How many time zones were created?
24
Elisha Otis developed what to advance elevator cars’ technology?
A safety mechanism
What allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulations?
Laissez-faire policies
Name the three reasons why immigrants were pushed from their countries
Political upheaval, religious discrimination, and crop failure.
The Bessemer Process, created by Henry Bessemer, developed a process of what?
Purifying iron
Gustavus Swift added what to trains to transport food?
Refrigerated cars
An African American inventor, Granville Woods, created what kind of furnace for running trains?
Steam