Benchmarks Flashcards
______________invented the railroad sleeping car.
•George M Pullman
The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a ____________.
•consolidation
______________invented the electric lightbulb.
•Thomas Edison
____________invented the telephone.
•Alexander Graham Bell
The steel company owner who was a great philanthropist was _____________.
•Andrew Carnegie
Railroad barons were created when the industry ____________.
•consolidated
_____________ pioneered the assembly line.
•Henry Ford
Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the ____________ Riot.
•Haymarket
The demand to have a regulated schedule caused the railroad companies to create ____________.
•time zones
I. The late 1800s and early 1900s, many people moved to cities to take ____________jobs.
•factory
It took immigrants ____ days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
•12
Many immigrant lived in urban apartment called ___________.
•tenements
_____________invented moving pictures.
•Thomas Edison
Most Asian immigrants went through processing center on ____________Island.
•Angel
___________was a settlement house founded by Jane Addams.
•Hull House
_________________ designed Central Park and several other parks in Boston.
Fredrick Law Olmstand
People might ___________from their homeland in order to find a better life in America.
•Emigrate
To improve living conditions of the poor, ______________houses were established.
•settlement
Many middle-class families moved from the cities into the ______________.
•Suburbs
To maintain their culture, immigrants with the same language and customs tended to live in the same __________groups.
•ethnics groups and neighborhoods
______________ was the first law passed to limit immigration.
•Chinese Exclusion Act
What law required that immigrants be able to read or write in some language?
•Immigration Act of 1917
___________argued that schools should be more hands- on and relate to students interest.
•John Dewey
People enjoyed cheering for homes teams or local sports strs while attending ___________sports.
•spectator
Nativist geared that immigrants would take away their jobs or drive down everyone’s wages by ___________ ______ ______.
•accepting lower pay
Overcrowding in the caused sanitation and health problems , these problems were _____ to solve.
•hard
The __________ ______ provided funds for land- grant colleges.
•Morrill Act
A__________ allows citizens to place a measure or an issue on the ballot in a state election.
•initiative
A ___________allows voters the opportunity to accept or reject measure that the legislature enacted.
•referendum
A __________ allows voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs.
•recall
Who won the election of 1908?
•William Howard Taft.
In 1913 the Bull Moose Party presidential candidate was ______________.
•Theodore Roosevelt
What was the Political Boss?
•to gain voted by doing favors
What was the sixteenth amendment?
•taxed American citizens based on their income.
What was the seventeenth amendment?
•progressives wanted to five people an opportunity to vote for senators directly.
What was the eighteenth amendment?
•banned the making or selling of alcohol
What was the nineteenth amendment?
•Granted women the right to vote.
__________ was the first state to allow women to vote.
•Wyoming
Theodore Roosevelt promised the people a ____________ _________ if he was elected president in 1904.
•square deal
Who helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
•W.E.B Du Bios
What is a muckraker?
•a journalist who uncovers corruption in a city.
What is a labor union?
•An organization of wage earners that is set up to serve and advance it’s members interests in terms of wages, benefits, and working hours and conditions.
How many states are in the continental United States?
•48
