Chapter 11 and 12 Test Review Flashcards
What did Thomas Edison do during the Industrial Revolution?
Invented the light bulb.
George Pullman
Created a community for his workers.
Rockefellar
Owned Standard Oil.
Christopher Sholes
Invented the typewriter.
Henry Bessemer
Created a more efficient way to make steel.
Edwin Drake
First person to use the steam engine to suck out oil from beneath the ground.
Andrew Carnegie
Dominated the steel industry.
Mary Jones
Organized worker unions in the coal mines for women and children.
What effect did the Triangle Shirt-Waist Factory burning down have?
It led workers to want better fire escapes and rights.
What is a scab?
Someone who fills avoid for someone on a sit down strike.
Where were factories built?
Factories were built on the water, until electricity was invented then they could be built wherever.
What did American Federation of Labor and union do?
Helped to improve worker’s wages and rights.
What did the Sherman Antitrust Act do?
Outlawed monopolies
When were skyscrapers built?
After the invention of making steel more efficiently.
What effect did Social Darwinism have?
Was the mindset for big entreprenuers when they first started out: the stronger business dominates the weaker ones.
What is vertical integration?
Buying out the suppliers/producers.
What changes did railroads cause?
Ended the wide open frontier.
Where did the Sioux defeat General Custer?
At the battle of Little Big Horn.
What did the battle of Little Big Horn lead to?
Lead to the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
What was the Sioux last battle?
The Massacre of Wounded Knee.
What was a central part of Native American culture?
Buffalo, family, and horses was a central part of Native American culture.
What were the reasons settlers moved West?
The Homestead Act, Gold, and Native Americans for freedom.
What did railroads do to farmers?
Railroads charged a ton of money towards farmers for shipping their goods.
What was bimetallism?
A system of allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g. gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other; farmers supported this.
