Chapter 18 Flashcards

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Why was steel so important to the industrial revolution?

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Steel replaced iron for many things and it was cheaper to make steel.

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What are patents? Who grants (gives) them?

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A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention. The government gives them.

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What is the Bessemer process?

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A method to make stronger steel at a low cost

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

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Railroads cars planes

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What connected Europe and the United States in 1866?

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The underwater telegraph cable

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What did Henry Ford used to create the very inexpensive model T auto mobile?

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He used and made an assembly line

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What did George Eastman invent?

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A lightweight camera

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What did Alexander Graham Bell invented?

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The telephone

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What is an assembly line?

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A manufacturing method in which 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 lab where Edison and other scientists produced the lightbulb phono grass motion picture camera and other devices

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Why was Andrew Carnegie called the steel baron?

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He ruthlessly eliminated competitions in control of the steel industry he created an monopoly

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What is an entrepreneur?

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Someone who sets up your businesses to make a profit

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What does collective-bargaining mean?

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It means unions negotiate 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 world conditions of children and supported minors on strike

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What is it a monopoly

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A company that controls most or all business in a particular 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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He worked to completely eliminate competition often by slashing prices so that other businesses couldn’t compete. cost him money at first

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More people wanted goods so factories that increase the number of what?

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Workers or jobs

17
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If a corporation wanted to raise capital what should it do?

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It could sell stock or shares

18
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What is a trust

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A group of corporations run by a single board of directors

19
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What factors contribution to city growth

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Steel, new technology, public transportation

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What is a settlement house

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A center offering help to the urban poor

21
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Who ran a famous settlement in Chicago

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Jane Addams

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What are tenements

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Buildings divided into many tiny apartments

23
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What did people do for excitement in the city

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Went to stores museums orchestras art galleries theaters and circuses

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What is assimilation

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The process of becoming part of another culture

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How did the nativists feel about the increased amounts of immigrants arriving

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The nativists felt like the immigrants took jobs away from the nativists

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

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Worked in steel mills meatpacking plants minds and garment sweatshops and factories

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Why did many people immigrate to the United States? What problems did they have when they got here? This might be a short answer question

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The immigrants moved to the United States because they were looking for a better life. Some problems were finding a job and a place to live

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What is yellow journalism

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It describes the sensational reporting style

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Why did realist choose to write about their subjects

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They wanted to show real life situations of how it really was

30
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How did public education improve in the late 1800s?

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More schools were created and there was a lot of the kids had to attend school up to a certain age

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What factors led to increased newspaper sales

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Spread of education, urbanization