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Question 1

What is a patent

Answer 1

license for a new invention

Question 2

What does Transatlantic mean

Answer 2

crossing or spanning the Atlantic Ocean

Question 3

What is the moving assembly line

Answer 3

method of production in which workers stay in one place as products edge along a moving belt

Question 4

What is mass production

Answer 4

process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

Question 5

How long has the telegraph been in use

Answer 5

1844

Question 6

What did Cyrus Fields do

Answer 6

Had the idea to lay a cable in the Atlantic so America and Europe can communicate

Question 7

How many failed attempts were made when laying the cable between Europe and N. America

Answer 7

5

Question 8

When did the Great Eastern succeed laying the cable

Answer 8

1866

Question 9

Who sent the first message between the 2 continents

Answer 9

Queen Victoria sent President James Buchanan a message

Question 10

Who invented the telephone

Answer 10

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 11

What did Thomas Edison invent

Answer 11

The lightbulb, the phonograph, the movie industry, and hundreds of other devices

Question 12

Who invented refrigeration

Answer 12

Gustavus Swift

Question 13

Who perfected/invented the typewriter

Answer 13

Christopher Sholes

Question 14

Who made the first handheld (lightweight Kodak camera)

Answer 14

George Eastman

Question 15

Who created a device to automatically oil engines

Answer 15

Elijah McCoy

Question 16

Who found a way to send telegraph messages between moving trains

Answer 16

Granville T. Woods

Question 17

Who invented a machine that could make shoes almost all by its self

Answer 17

Jan Matzeliger

Question 18

Where were the first cars made

Answer 18

Europe (Germany, Benz Patent-Motorwagen)

Question 19

Who made the moving assembly line

Answer 19

Henry Ford

Question 20

Who invented the Aeroplane

Answer 20

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 21

When was the first flight

Answer 21

December 17, 1903

Question 22

What were the Knights of Labor

Answer 22

an American labor organization founded in 1869 to protect the rights of workers

Question 23

What is a sweatshop

Answer 23

workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay

Question 24

What is a strikebreaker

Answer 24

replacement for a striking worker

Question 25

What is anarchist

Answer 25

person who opposes organized government

Question 26

What was the Haymarket Riot

Answer 26

labor rally in Chicago in 1886 that ended in violence when a bomb exploded (from anarchists)

Question 27

What was the A.F.L (American Federation of Labor)

Answer 27

an organization of trade unions that represent skilled workers

Question 28

What is a trade union

Answer 28

association of trade workers formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions

Question 29

What is collective bargaining

Answer 29

process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

Question 30

What was the ILGWU (the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union)

Answer 30

union of garment workers formed in 1900

Question 31

What was the Triangle fire

Answer 31

fire in 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City that killed nearly 150 workers

Question 32

Who made the AFL

Answer 32

Samuel Gompers

Question 33

What were the results of the 1885 strike at the Missouri Pacific Railroad

Answer 33

If forced them to restore wage

Question 34

What were the common goals between labor unions

Answer 34

higher pay, better conditions, and shorter working hours

Question 35

Why were people uneager to join unions

Answer 35

because they would get fired

Question 36

Whos side did the government stand with on the issue of labor

Answer 36

facotry owners

Question 37

Between 1870 and 1900, _______ and ________ caused workers to lose jobs
and take pay cuts

Answer 37

depressions and recessions

Question 38

What act broke up trusts and monopolies

Answer 38

The Sherman Anti Trust Act