Thomas Edison
Edison's impairment since he was a child.
What is hard of hearing/deaf?
One worker does a specific job and the product moves along a belt to another worker, who does another job.
What is an assembly line?
Factories where people worked long hours for little pay under poor conditions.
What are sweatshops?
A government station located in New Jersey and New York where newcomers were received to be processed.
What is Ellis Island?
This is where goods including steel, tobacco and pencils were made.
What are factories?
Edison's nikname.
What is The Wizard of Menlo Park?
This means to make large amounts of products using machinery.
What is manufactured?
Buildings known as these were small, crowded and run-down.
What are tenements?
It symbolizes freedom and opportunity and was seen by the immigrants from the ship as they approached Ellis Island.
What is The Statue of Liberty?
This, meaning the flow of air, was very poor in the tenements where immigrants lived.
What is ventilation?
Edison's most well-known achievement.
What is the electric lightbulb?
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were also considered this because they started and managed new businesses.
Who are entrepreneurs?
A person who comes to another country to live and settle.
Who is an immigrant?
This percentage of immigrants were sent back to Europe after they were examined and questioned.
What is 2 %?
An applicant for citizenship must swear this to their new country.
What is loyalty?
The language telegraphs communicated in.
What is morse code?
This period of great inventions brought great change and impacted the way people worked and lived. Many people moved to NJ.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
A person who is a member of a state or nation.
Who is a citizen?
After they left Ellis Island, the immigrants hoped to find work where?
Many immigrants unloaded freight or cargo from these.
What are trains and boats?
Thomas Edison was born in here in this year.
Where is Michigan in 1847?
This keeps other people from copying a person's ideas for a set number of years. To this day, Edison holds the World record for having more than 1,000.
Who is a patent?
This lack of food in the 1840's caused many Irish to die due to the potato crop failing.
What is The Great Famine?
Two reasons why immigrants often lived in tenements with people from the same coutnry.
They shared the same language, food, culture, and offered comfort.
The was a very big challenge for immigrants as they struggled to do this when they first came.
What is adapting to a new life?