Invented by Thomas Edison, this item allowed people to work and play longer.
What is the light bulb?
100
This act prevented a particular group of immigrants from coming to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
This person could have been called a "robber baron" because his oil industry became a monopoly and did not allow small businesses to compete.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
This term refers to a time when the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically
What is urbanization?
200
Some people thought America should be like this analogy, where immigrants gave up their old cultures and became part of one single American culture.
What is the "melting pot"?
200
Because the Bessemer process made them cheaper and stronger, this invention allowed people to travel over bodies of water much more efficiently.
What is the suspension bridge?
200
This place is where immigrants from Asia arrived at the United States and were processed.
What is Angel Island?
200
In this process, goods are made in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.
What is mass production?
200
This group of people had a special advantage when they moved to cities to find work, since there were more types of jobs for them there than in the country.
Who are women?
300
For this kind of reason, immigrants chose to leave their home countries due to negative conditions there.
What is a push factor?
300
If you call someone this name, you believe that entrepreneurs use their innovations to make this country great and should be celebrated.
What is a Captain of Industry?
300
This is a system where individual people (not governments) own their own businesses, put in their money, and earn a profit.
What is capitalism?
300
One of the downsides of industrialization was poor working conditions. Therefore, these were formed to use collective bargaining or negotiating to fight for workers' rights.
What are labor unions?
300
This innovation was especially important to the growth of cities, as it improved living conditions by allowing people to get from place to place more quickly.
What is the subway/electric trolley? (Or mass transit)
400
Because of this, there was a huge demand for immigrants to come to the United States.
What is industrialization/the growth of industry?
400
You might be doing this if your corporation wants to make money from an innovation by buying all the other companies that produce your product.
What is horizontal integration?
400
These are used to encourage people to buy American goods instead of those imported from overseas.
What are protective tariffs?
400
In this event, there was conflict between police officers and strikers, and both anarchists and the Knights of Labor were blamed for the violence.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
Living in these was unpleasant, since it was very crowded and dirty.
What are tenements?
500
According to this idea, immigrants are inferior to white people who were born in the United States.
What is nativism?
500
According to this idea, people who rise to the top of society deserve to be there, and people who are poor or unsuccessful are just not worthy of success.
What is social Darwinism?
500
Without these, it would have been impossible for trains to run on time and on the same schedule.
What are time zones?
500
According to this policy, industry can only grow and help the country if the government does not interfere with much regulation.
What is laissez faire?
500
As a result of the growth of cities, these groups of professionals were formed to deal with two of the major problems with urban living.
What are professional firefighters and professional police officers?