Inventors and Inventions
What is a patent?
This man owned the steel monopoly Carnegie Steel and donated large amounts of money to charity
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is a group of workers that come together to negotiate with business owners for better pay, better working conditions, and shorter work hours
What is a labor union?
Immigrants lived in these poorly lit and poorly ventilated apartments where as many as eight people would crowd a single room
What is a tenement?
This northern military plan involved blockading southern ports and seizing control of the Mississippi River during the Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This process created cheaper and lighter steel, increasing the growth of cities and railroads
What is the Bessemer Process?
These TWO WORDS represent the "two sides" of monopolists - some people thought that business owners were cruel and got wealthy by exploiting the poor, while others thought that they donated their money to good causes
What is robber baron and captain of industry?
This is the use of children in dangerous working conditions like factories and mines
What is child labor?
These people came from Southern and Eastern Europe or Asia, spoke little English, and had a different culture than Americans
Who are new immigrants?
This plan to try and resolve the slavery problem involved drawing a line, called the 36'30 parallel, where states below the line would be slave and states above the line would be free
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This invention was one of the first systems of mass communication, where Morse Code transmitted messages long distance over wire
What is the telegraph?
This man owned the Florida East Coast Railway after becoming wealthy investing in oil; there is a street in Miami named after him
Who is Henry Flagler?
This union allowed only skilled workers to join and was the most successful union during the Industrial Age
What is the American Federation of Labor?
These groups controlled major cities like New York, giving immigrants food, jobs, and housing in return for votes
What are political machines?
This amendment gave all men, regardless of their race, the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
This man patented the most inventions during the Industrial Revolution, including the light bulb, the phonograph, and the voice recorder
Who is Thomas Edison?
Process by which you own all the steps to make a product (the mine, the trains to transport the iron, the factory to melt it down, the plant to make the steel)
What is vertical integration?
During this strike a bomb exploded in the middle of the protest, causing unions to gain a reputation of violence
What is the Haymarket Strike?
Who is Boss Tweed?
These laws established the segregation of public facilities like schools, buses, and bathrooms in the south
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This African American inventor became famous for inventing the traffic light and gas mask
Who is Garrett Morgan?
In this form of capitalism the government is "lazy" and does not regulate business, leading to the growth of monopolies
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Federal troops were called in to put down this strike against major U.S. railway companies
What is the Pullman Strike?
This deal with Japan promised not to segregate Japanese schoolchildren as long as Japan agreed to limit their number of immigrants to the U.S.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
This law admitted California as a free state and allowed voters in Utah and New Mexico to use popular sovereignty to decide if they would allow slavery or not
What is the Compromise of 1850?