Inventors
Invented the Light Bulb
Who is Thomas Edison
Steel
Andrew Carnegie
Captains of industry created these in order to eliminate competition and control the market
What is a monopoly?
The main regions of the world where immigrants were coming from 1870 - 1920
What is south and eastern Europe?
Progressive journalists who exposed abuses in business, government, and society
Who are muckrakers?
Invented the Airplane
Who are the Wright Brothers
Oil
John D. Rockefeller
America was able to industrialize after the Civil War because of the abundance of this
What is resources? (coal/iron/oil) OR what is labor force? (immigrants, migrants)
Immigrants arriving in New York were processed here
What is Ellis Island?
The author of the Jungle, a book that exposed the meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
Railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
America was able to industrialize due to this type of policy from the government that did not interfere with business
What is laissez-faire?
This law banned Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
DAILY DOUBLE
This amendment to the Constitution prohibited the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages
What is the 18th amendment?
Invented the gas mask and traffic light
Finance
JP Morgan
The meatpacking industry was primarily centered in this major city
What is Chicago?
This is a term to describe a place where many different cultures and people mix
What is a melting pot?
This amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Invented the assembly line for automobiles
Who is Henry Ford
Cosmetics
Madam CJ Walker
The steel industry was primarily centered in this major city
What is Pittsburgh?
This is when immigrants slowly adopt the dominant culture of society
What is assimilation?
This law ended monopolies and monopolistic practices
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?