People
She was the most famous leader of NAWSA.
Carrie Chapman Catt
One of the oldest baseball stadiums, in Boston.
Fenway Park
A mode of transportation that changed the American diet.
Refrigerated Rail Cars
He founded Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
A type of entertainment popularized in the 19th century, featuring many short skits and musical acts.
Vaudeville
He invented air brakes for trains.
George Westinghouse
The first amusement park, created by railroads to give people a reason to ride the train.
Coney Island
The inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Creating a monopoly by controlling natural resources and transportation
Vertical integration
Trains between cities made this possible and profitable in the 19th century
professional sports
He believed blacks should have the same Civil Rights as Whites, and led the Radical Republicans.
Thaddeus Stevens
NYC location for the popular music industry in the 19th century
Tin Pan Alley
The invention of Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Creating a monopoly by buying up all competitors in the same business
Horizontal integration
Scott Joplin isthe most well known composer of this musical style
Ragtime
His plan for Reconstruction was the 10% Plan.
Abraham Lincoln
Where the "new" immigrants largely came from
southern and eastern Europe
Elisha Otis is associated with this urban essential
the safety elevator
The name given to the attitude of the U.S. government toward growing U.S. businesses in the 19th century.
Laissez-faire
Dating as we know it today became possible because of this urban invention
Street lights
He invented the wireless telegraph, the precursor to radio.
Guglielmo Marconi
Where the growing middle class looked to build homes and neighborhoods
suburbs
Jane Addams is associated with building these in American cities
Settlement Houses
Act of Congress that outlawed combinations in restraint of trade
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
One of the two people associated with the modern department store
Rowland Macy, John Wanamaker