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Ch 18 Tst Flashcards

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Why was steel so important to the industrial revolution?

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Because steel made railroads,shipping lines, steel mills, and iron mines

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What are patents? Who grants them?

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A patent is a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell and invention and the government grants them

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What is the Bessemer process?

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It makes steel stronger for a cheaper price

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What methods of transportation revolutionized the way people traveled in the United States?

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Trains, trolleys, and automobiles

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What connected Europe and the United States in 1866

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An underwater telegraph cable

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What did Henry ford use to create the very inexpensive Model T automobile

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He used assembly lines

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What did George Eastman invent?

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He made the lightweight camera

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What did Alexander graham bell invent?

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He created the telephone

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What is an assembly line?

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A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt

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What was Thomas Edison’s “invention factory”?

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It was a research laboratory where he produced inventions

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Why was Andrew Carnegie called a steel baron?

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Because he owned so many steel companies, and controlled the steel industry

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What is an entrepreneur?

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Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit

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What does collective bargaining mean?

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Unions negotiating with management for workers as a group

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Who was Mary Harris jones?

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She called attention to the poor work conditions of children and supported miners on strike

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What is a monopoly?

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A company that controls most or all business in an industry

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Based on what Rockefeller did to eliminate competition how do you think he felt about it?

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Rockefeller worker to completely eliminate competition, often by slashing prices so that other businesses Couldn’t compete so he probably felt ok about it since he gained money after

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Not people wanted goods so factories had to increase the number of what?

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Jobs or workers

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If is corporation wanted to raise capital what could it do?

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A corporation would sell shares or stock in its company to raise capital

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What is a trust?

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A group of corporations run by a single board of directors

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What factors contributed to city growth?

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Factories, new technology, and attractions

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What is a settlement house?

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A center offer help to the urban poor offering education training sports and child care

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Who ran a famous settlement house in Chicago?

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Jane Addams ran hull house

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What are tenements?

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Buildings divided into tiny apartments where most urban poor lived in crowded conditions

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What did people do for excitement in the city?

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Shop at department stores visit museums art galleries zoos theatres etc

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What is assimilation?

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The process of becoming part of a mother culture

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How would a nativist feel about the increased amounts of immigrants arriving?

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They would feel mad because they disliked them and thought they were taking all of their jobs

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What type of work did most immigrants do when they came to America?

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The worked in factories and other unskilled labor

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Why did many people emigrate to the United States? What problems did they have when they got here?

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They left their homes to escape economic hardship, persecution, and prejudice. They looked for opportunities to make more money and to practice their beliefs without fear. In the us they had to deal with a different language, different customs, the difficulty of finding work, a place to live, and fitting. They also had to deal with discrimination

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What is yellow journalism?

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The sensational reporting style used by newspapers to increase sales

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Why did realists choose to write about their subjects?

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The writers wanted to show life as it really was

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How did public education improve in the late 1800s?

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More students were required to go to school for a set number of Years. They learned the three subjects writing reading and arithmetic. Adults also got an opportunity to learn.

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What factors lead to increased newspaper sells?

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More educated people who could read the paper more people lived in cities where they were printed.

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