The Second Industrial Revolution
During this time period, America grew fast as people stopped making goods by hand and started using these inside large buildings.
What are machines (or factories)?
Thomas Edison completely changed the way people lived and worked at night by inventing a practical version of this glowing object.
What is the lightbulb?
Because cities grew so quickly, they often became very dirty and this word, meaning there were too many people living in one place.
What is overcrowded?
He was the 26th President of the United States who loved the outdoors and wanted to protect America's natural beauty.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The clever creation of a brand-new tool, machine, or idea that solves a problem.
What is an invention (or innovation)?
Which inventions were made during the First Industrial Revolution?
What is the cotton gin and steam engine?
Because there were so many new factory jobs, people moved away from rural farms to live in these crowded areas.
What are cities?
Alexander Graham Bell invented this communication device, allowing people to talk to each other across long distances instantly.
What is the telephone?
To keep the crowded cities safe from burning down, new jobs had to be formed, including this group of brave workers.
Who are firefighters?
Roosevelt started this important movement to save America's land, trees, and wildlife from being destroyed.
What is the Conservation Movement?
The act of protecting and saving natural resources like water, trees, and land from being wasted.
What is conservation?
An organization formed by workers to win and protect workers’ rights
What is a union?
This very important vocabulary word describes the massive movement of people moving from farms into urban cities.
What is urbanization?
The Wright Brothers made history in 1903 when they successfully flew the first one of these at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
What is an airplane?
To help keep the streets clean and stop the spread of disease, cities hired these workers to collect the waste.
Who are trash men (or sanitation workers)?
Roosevelt saw that factories and lumber companies were chopping down too many of these, which destroyed animal habitats.
What are forests (or trees)?
Materials found in nature that humans use to survive and build things, like wood, water, and coal.
What are natural resources?
The process of a region changing to have more or larger cities, or urban areas
What is urbanization?
This group of people traveled across the ocean from other countries to America looking for jobs in the new factories.
Who are immigrants?
Henry Ford completely changed transportation by inventing the Model T, which was an affordable type of this.
What is a car (or automobile)?
This group of workers was hired by the growing cities to enforce the laws and protect the citizens from crime.
Who are police officers?
To make sure beautiful lands were protected forever for future generations, Roosevelt used his power to create many of these specific parks.
What are National Parks?
The process of making goods by using machines in factories instead of making them by hand.
What is manufacturing (or industry)?
An area or a structure protected by the federal government that has important meaning for a country
What is a national landmark?
Henry Ford used this moving belt system to build the Model T car much faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
These new inventions completely changed the U.S. economy by creating thousands of new __________ for workers.
What are jobs?
Because cities were so large, new forms of this had to be built to move people around, like subways, streetcars, and trains.
What is public transportation?
Yellowstone and Yosemite are two famous examples of these massive, protected natural areas.
What are National Parks (or landmarks)?
A person who leaves their home country to permanently move to a new country, often for better opportunities.
What is an immigrant?
A person who wants to stop human actions that are harmful to wild or natural spaces
What is a conservationist?