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Industrialization Flashcards

1
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What city was the center of the meat industry?

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Chicago

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What was the railroad city?

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Omaha

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What region was the center of textiles?

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North

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What city was the center for the automobile industry?

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Detroit

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5
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What were major inventions in transportation?

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  • Steam Boats
  • Canals
  • Railroads
  • Refrigerated Railcars
  • Better Roads
  • Automobiles
  • Airplanes
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6
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What is the definition of natural resources?

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Anything that people can use that comes from nature.

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Is it better to have more or less natural resources?

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More because if you have more natural resources the faster your industry can grow.

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What were some of the natural resources that that United States had?

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  • Iron Ore
  • Coal
  • Petroleum
  • Copper
  • Lead
  • Wood
  • Phosphates
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Where were products made?

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  • Close to a work force

- Close to natural resources

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What are agricultural areas?

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Large rural areas where farming occurs.

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What are manufacturing centers?

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Places where natural resources are turned into finished products.

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12
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What is a national market.

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Places where large populations want products.

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How did advances and transportation link resources, products and markets?

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  • Made it possible to take natural resources to manufacturing centers to be used in making finished products
  • Finished products could now be taken to national markets regardless of distances
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Who invented the telephone and what was its impact?

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  • Alexander Graham Bell

- Could communicate between long distances

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Who invented the phonograph and how did it impact people.

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  • Thomas Edison

- Could now listen to music in the comfort of your own home

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Who invented the first practical lightbulb and what impact did it have?

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  • Thomas Edison
  • Could light you homes without flames
  • Could light your home after dark
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17
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What city was the center of steel production?

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Pittsburgh

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18
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Who invented the fountain pen and how did it impact people.

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  • Lewis Waterman

- Better and more efficient writing utensil.

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Who invented the air air brake and what was its impact?

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  • George Westinghouse
  • Could stop trains without labor
  • Much safer travel for train passengers
20
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Who invented the process to convert iron to steel and how did that impact people?

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  • Henry Bessemer
  • Steel was a stronger and more durable material
  • Steel was made cheaper with this process
21
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Who invented the typewriter and how did it impact people

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  • Made documents and letters more legible
22
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Who invented the first motion picture and what was its impact?

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  • Thomas Edison

- Was a new form of entertainment for people

23
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Who invented radio transmission and how did it impact people?

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  • Guglielmo Marconi

- New way of receiving news and entertainment

24
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Who invented powered flight and what was its impact?

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  • Wright Brothers

- New faster form of transportation

25
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Who invented the assembly line and how did it impact people?

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  • Less need for skilled workers

- Lower wages for families

26
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Who invented the Electric power plant and what was its impact?

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  • Thomas Edison

- Made it possible to provide power for multiple electric decides at once

27
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What is a cooperation?

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  • A public company (a company owned by many people)

- These companies can buy other companies because they have more money

28
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What is a monopoly?

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The complete control of an industry by a person or cooperation

29
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What were robber barons?

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  • Wealthy powerful businessmen
  • Used exploitive practices and government influences
  • Paid lower than minimum wage
  • Squashed start up companies
  • Created monopolies and raised their products prices
30
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Who was Andrew Carnegie?

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  • Scottish immigrant
  • Founded Carnegie Steel Company
  • Philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars at the end of his life
  • Owned every step needed to make iron to steel
31
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What is vertical integration?

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Owning every step needed for an industry.

32
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Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

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  • A rags to riches story
  • Controlled the shipping and railroad industry
  • Used vertical integration
  • Ruthless
  • Built Grand Central Station in New York
33
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Who was JP Morgan?

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  • A rich to richer story
  • Bought Carnegie Steel Co. from Andre Carnegie
  • Singlehandedly bailed out US government
  • Created General Electric after a taking it for Edison
  • Very ruthless and was considered a robber baron
34
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Who was John D Rockefeller?

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  • Had most of his business in Ohio
  • Wealthiest of four robber barons
  • Founded Standard Oil Company
  • Created a way to refine oil
  • Becomes the richest man in history
  • Owned 90% of the refinery business
  • Considered very ruthless and uncaring
  • Was the first person to be accused as a robber Barron and taken to trial on a monopoly
35
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What is horizontal combination?

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Owning the businesses that are needed for an industry

36
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What were the 5 impacts the industrial revolution had on employees of big businesses?

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  • Rise of Immigration
  • Low Pay
  • Long Hours
  • Unsafe Working Conditions
  • Child Labor
37
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What were some dangers children faces while working at factories?

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  • Desease
  • Rats and Vermin
  • Cuts and Scrapes
  • Poor Air
  • Beatings
38
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What were some of the jobs children had to do?

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  • Peeling Potatoes
  • Snapping Beans
  • Cottin Gin
  • Sorting Coal
  • Sewing
  • Glass Factory
39
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What opportunity that we have today did children then not have?

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The opportunity to go to school.

40
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What type of skills did children have that made them preferable for some jobs?

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  • Small Hands
  • More Manageable
  • Able to Get Into Small Places
  • Complained Less
  • Quicker
  • Able to Do Simple Tasks for Long Periods of Time
41
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What was the Laissez-Faire Law?

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Policy for the government that they wouldn’t interfere with indutry

42
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What did the Laissez-Faire Law cause?

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Low wages and long hours because there were no restrictions.

43
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What did an industry need to grow in the US?

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  • Capitol
  • Natural Resources
  • Railroads
  • Energy
  • New Inventions
  • Large Populations
  • Advertising
44
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How did mechanization transform American life?

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Mechanization replaced the need for human lab for many farm tasks with more efficient and effective machines.

45
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How did urban industrial development transform American life?

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Made the day-to-day life of Americans easier and opened the door to more employment opportunities.

46
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How did the shift in the population to rural to urban communities transform American life?

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Many Americans moved from farms to cities for better opportunities and more exciting activities.

47
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How did access to consumer goods transform American life?

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Access to consumer goods provided rural Americans with the ability to purchase items previously only available in cities. Mail order catalogs opened up the country as a national market for many different products.

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