Industrial Age Flashcards
In the late 19th century, educated, middle-class women dominated the new profession of…
Nursing
Although there was additional factors as well, by the final decades of the 19th century, the chief cause of urban was…
Expansion of industry
Urban transportation was revolutionized and urban development was redirected in the late 1880’s by…
Electric trolleys
The leader of the “city beautiful” movement and the landscape architect and designer of Central Park in New York was…
Frederick Law Olmsted
A form of popular education which illustrated the popular desire for new information in the late 19th century was…
Chautauqua Movement
The land-grant university system resulted from the…
Morrill Act of 1862
The leader of what was called the progressive education was…
John Dewey
The founder of the Hull House in a Chicago slum was…
Jane Addams
The author of “How the Other Half Lives” is…
Jacob A. Riis
Losing ones job to new machinery/equipment is called…
Technological unemployment
The process of buying businesses that supply the different stages of your existing business is called…
Vertical integration
By the end of the 1800’s, the industrial capacity of the United States…
Greatly surpassed both Great Britain’s and Germany’s
25 years after the civil war, railroads…
Were likely the most significant element in the development of the American economy
After the transportation, the second most important element to the United States’ industrialization in the late 19th century was
Iron manufacturing
While Edison did not invent the light bulb, he did make it more efficient by…
Finding the right filament
All of the following were used to standardize railroads, thus making them more efficient, except…
Construction of more lines
The process that directed a stream of air into molten iron to burn off impurities, making better quality steel was the…
Bessemer process
Perhaps better than the Bessemer Process was the open-hearth method because it allowed for…
Allowed for more quality control
The economy from 1873 to 1893 was characterized by…
Much competition for markets
Large shippers were encouraged to use specific railroads because they…
Were offered rebates
Intense competition among railroads resulted in…
Financially unstable railroads that were vulnerable to any economic downturn
Andrew Carnegie was one of the first industrial magnates of the era to realize the importance of…
Developing technology to produce superior goods
John D. Rockefellers success can be said primarily to be because of his…
Attention to detail and extensive organizing skills
Natural selection, part of the theory of evolution was used to justify American magnates greed. This theory was put forth by…
Charles Darwin
Not everyone was a big fan of the big businessman, ________ instead stated that “Every important man in the oil, coal, and many other trusts ought today to be in some one of our penitentiaries.”
Henry Demarest Lloyd
The Industrial Age was made possible by…
a population boom
Telegraph invented by…
Samuel Morse in 1837
Telephone invented by…
Alexander Graham Bell in 1876
First person to have a paper made by the Linotype and Printing Press reach a massive audience?
Joseph Pulitzer
Owner who is seen as “Robbing” the less fortunate, has bad public image, and may try to reclaim a good image by donating large chunks of money
Robber Baron
Owner who is seen as bettering society, “survival of the fittest”, rags to riches story
Captains of Industry
Ferried goods and people between Manhattan and Staten Island, later purchased and consolidated railroads.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Built largest steel mill in 1873 and first to use Bessemer process
Andrew Carnegie
First billion dollar corporation, offered to buy out Carnegie
JP Morgan
Standard Oi, started in 1870 and within 9 years had 90% of nations refining business (mostly due to organization and attention to detail)
John D. Rockefeller
