Inventions Through Time
Which invention revolutionized the steel industry in the 1850s?
What is the Bessemer Process?
Why did the U.S. population shift from rural to urban areas?
What is because new jobs were created in factories during the Industrial Revolution?
What were the two primary causes of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
What are population growth and the expansion of the railroad?
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is a law that unfairly restricted Chinese immigration and led to discrimination?
Which show followed six friends living in New York City and hanging out at a coffee shop called Central Perk?
What is Friends?
Put these inventions in order from earliest to latest: Telegraph, Bessemer Process, Model T, Light Bulb, Cotton Gin.
What is Cotton Gin (1793), Telegraph (1830s–1840s), Bessemer Process (1850s), Light Bulb (1879), Model T (1908)?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's population grew in the 19th century due to what major industry? (On the North-Eastern Side of the Country)
What is the steel industry?
Why did industries in the East need resources from the West?
What is because Western resources fueled Eastern industries?
The Know Nothing Party opposed which groups in the 1850s?
Who are immigrants, especially Germans, Irish, and Italians?
In Full House, what city did Danny Tanner and his family live in?
What is San Francisco?
Which invention by Henry Ford changed transportation in the early 1900s?
What is the Model T?
How did factories contribute to urbanization in U.S. cities?
What is they provided jobs that attracted people to move to cities?
Why didn’t the U.S. need a vast empire to fuel its industrial revolution like England did?
What is because the U.S. already had plenty of natural resources and a good rail system?
What was the main belief of the Know Nothing Party?
What is nativism—the belief that America should be controlled by native-born Protestants?
Which show featured Will Smith moving in with his wealthy aunt and uncle in Bel-Air?
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
Who invented the electric light bulb in 1879?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Why were American cities overcrowded on the East Coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
What is immigration, and factories caused cities to grow rapidly?
Which ocean did Chinese immigrants cross to come to America?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Why did the Know Nothing Party fear Catholic immigrants?
Thought they would steal elections, as portrayed in cartoons.
Which long-running show followed the Connor family and tackled real-life working-class issues?
What is Roseanne?
This English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215, limiting the power of the monarchy for the first time.
Who is King John?
During the Industrial Revolution, did the urban or rural population grow more, and why?
What is the urban population, because of new job opportunities?
How did the expansion of the railroad system help the Industrial Revolution?
What is it connected resources, factories, and markets across the nation?
What was one major effect of increased immigration on U.S. cities?
What is overcrowding and rapid urban growth?
Which cartoon featured two lab mice trying to take over the world every night?
What is Pinky and the Brain?