industrial revolution vocab

Question 1

Edwin L. Drake

Answer 1

First person to use steam engine to drill for oil

Question 2

Bessemer Process

Answer 2

Technique used to make steel from iron

Question 3

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 3

Inventor of the telephone

Question 4

Thomas Edison

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Inventor of the light bulb

Question 5

Christopher Sholes

Answer 5

Inventor of the typewriter

Question 6

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 6

A railroad that crosses the entire country

Question 7

George M. Pullman

Answer 7

Inventor of the sleeping car

Question 8

Crédit Mobilier

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Name of company involved in stealing of railroad money

Question 9

Munn v. Illinois

Answer 9

Court case that gave government right to regulate private industry

Question 10

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 10

Law granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities

Question 11

Andrew Carnegie

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Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry

Question 12

Vertical Integration

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Process in which a company buys out its suppliers

Question 13

Horizontal Integration

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Process in which companies producing similar products merge

Question 14

Social Darwinism

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Theory that taught only the strong survived

Question 15

John D. Rockefeller

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Head of the Standard Oil Company

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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Law that outlawed trusts

Question 17

Samuel Gompers

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Union leader

Question 18

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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Name of union led by Gompers

Question 19

Eugene V. Debs

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Leader of the American Railway Union

Question 20

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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Union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the

Wobblies

Question 21

Mary Harris Jones

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Organizer for United Mine Workers

Question 22

Ellis Island

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Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East Coast

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Angel Island

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Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast

Question 24

Melting Pot

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A mixture of different cultures living together

Question 25

Nativism

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Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans

Question 26

Chinese Exclusion Act

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Act that limited Chinese immigration

Question 27

Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Agreement that limited Japanese emigration to the U.S.

Question 28

Urbanization

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The growth of cities

Question 29

Tenement

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Multifamily urban dwellings

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Mass Transit

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Transportation system designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes

Question 31

Social Gospel Movement

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Movement that urged people to help the poor

Question 32

Settlement House

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Community center that addressed problems in slum neighborhoods

Question 33

Jane Addams

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Social reformer who helped the poor