Inventions
Nickelodeon
Industrial Age
Vocabulary
The Railroad
100
Inventor of the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edision?
100
Underwater show about a sponge, starfish, and squid.
What is Spongebob Squarepants?
100
The invention of the telephone and typewriter created many new jobs for this group of people
Who is women?
100
The merging of companies that make similar products.
What is horizontal integration?
100
The Central Pacific Railroad, which started building in California, employed thousands of immigrants from this country
What is China?
200
Inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Cartoon about a group of military penguins in a New York City Zoo, based on a movie.
What is The Penguins of Madagascar?
200
What were the 3 major resources that United States had a wealth of at the turn of the century?
What are iron ore, oil, and coal?
200
A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850.
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
The Union Pacific Railroad, which started building in the East, employed thousands of workers from this country.
What is Ireland?
300
Process that turned iron ore into steel by injecting air to remove carbon.
What is the Bessemer Process?
300
Show about a girl and her friends who create a popular web show.
What is iCarly?
300
Three uses for steel in the United States that we discussed in class?
What are farm machines, barbwire, bridges, skyscrapers, railroad tracks.
300
A construction company formed in 1864 by the owners of the Union Pacific Railroad, who used it to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves.
What is the Credit Mobilier?
300
The amount of time zones is the Continental United States divided into.
What is 4?
400
The first person to use a steam engine to drill into the ground for oil
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
400
Show about a group of hockey players that go to Hollywood to form a boy band.
What is Big Time Rush?
400
He created an entire town for the workers of his sleeper car factory in Illinois
Who is George Pullman?
400
An alliance of trade and craft unions, formed in 1886.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
400
What are the names of the times zones in the continental United States?
What is Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific.
500
Inventor of the typewriter.
Who is Christopher Sholes?
500
Show about a girl who sings her way into the Hollywood Arts Academy.
What is Victorious?
500
The three factors that led to the United States being the leading industrial power.
What are government support, wealth of resources, and growing urban population.
500
An 1877 case in which the Supreme Court upheld states’ regulation of railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers, thus establishing the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest.
What is Munn vs. Illinois?
500
Measures enacted to regulate the railroads
What are Granger Laws?